A quasar from the early universe has revealed the longest black hole jet ever detected, spanning 200,000 light-years.

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

An example of this is the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the first black hole imaged by humanity, noted for its energetic eruptions. (Left) the relatively ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

M87* black hole shows dynamic plasma ring shifts from 2017-2018 Gas spirals inward, defying the black hole's rotation in some instances Advanced modelling reveals turbulent feeding mechanisms near M87 ...