Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

The black hole appears far too massive for its host galaxy, placing it in a rare category of “overmassive” black holes.

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Scientists are developing new methods to turn black hole images into time-resolved 3D movies, revealing how plasma, jets, and gravity behave near event horizons ...

U.S. astronomers have identified an extraordinarily rare cosmic system in which three merging galaxies each host an actively ...

From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...

In a groundbreaking astronomical discovery, researchers have unveiled a cosmic event of immense scale: a trio of galaxies, each hosting a supermassive black hole, is on a collision course. Located ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most powerful telescopes ever made by NASA till now. It continues to help us set ...