This discovery challenges some ideas about how matter organizes around black holes. Contrary to what some models predicted, the detected emissions wouldn't come from a matter jet, but rather from ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and was the ideal first target for the Event Horizon Telescope. Scientists ...

Supermassive black holes—with masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of our sun—sit at the centers of most large galaxies. Astronomers have observed such black holes to exist as early ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to observe and characterize Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. In May 2022, they unveiled the first-ever image of this ...

The AI also provided insights into the black hole's emission source and magnetic field behavior. Edited by: Nikhil Pandey Science Jun 19, 2025 22:55 pm IST Read Time: 3 mins ...

Most galaxies around the size of the Milky Way or larger have a supermassive black hole skulking in their center. Each of these black holes can be millions or even billions of times more massive ...

Simone joined other artists there to offer the students encouragement. That summer she also debuted the song “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” and performed it during the Harlem Cultural Festival.