"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of ...

The black hole in question, with a mass of about 55 million times that of the Sun, is located 12 million light-years from Earth in a region of the universe known for its powerful jets and ...

From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team led by Anne-Kathrin Baczko from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has shown that the EHT will be ...

A constellation of small satellites could help researchers view processes in close vicinity of supermassive black holes like ...

We look back at three of the biggest biology stories of 2024: a reconstruction of the ancient ancestor of all modern life, the discovery of a neural circuit that regulates the immune system, and ...

The galaxy M87 with its center hosting the black hole M87*. Black holes are thousands of times less massive than galaxies, yet they produce jets that point in the same direction. In general, the black ...

Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that the EHT will be able to make exciting images of a supermassive black hole and its jets in ...