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

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

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

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

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...

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

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...

New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that ...

The supermassive black hole 3C 273 is a wonder. It is the first object identified as a quasar, a black hole that is eating ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...

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 ...