Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation, billions of times more energetic than visible light.

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...

The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...

Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally ...

NASA's discovery of massive black holes like the one in quasar 3C 273 offers new insights into galactic interactions and how ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious spiral galaxy NGC 5643, which is located roughly 40 million ...

A monster lurks in the heart of many galaxies, a supermassive black hole able to devour entire stars in a blink. These ...

M87, located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a ...

As the premiere X-ray observation device in low-Earth Orbit, the Chandra telescope had a prime view of a lack hole located ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space.