New observations have discovered that the black hole in M87, the first black hole ever imaged, is actually spinning.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole coming towards Earth. Before you get too alarmed, just know that we aren’t actually in danger — however, that doesn’t make the news any less unsettling.

Scientists at the Royal Astronomical Society have made a groundbreaking discovery that has set the world of astronomy abuzz. A supermassive black hole, located 657 million light-years away in the ...

New research has found the jet blasting outward from this black hole swings like a pendulum on an 11-year cycle.

Scientists think two, or even three, black holes could live just about 150 light years from our planet. Astronomers may have discovered that the closest black holes to Earth could be lurking in ...

Astronomers have discovered that the closest black holes to Earth may exist in the Hyades star cluster. Observations made with the Gaia satellite suggest that several black holes likely exist in ...

The closest black holes to Earth may have just gotten trillions of miles closer. In new research published in the September issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ...

Sep. 12, 2023 — At the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Beyond a certain size, these become active, emitting huge amounts of radiation, and are then called quasars.

The closest black holes to Earth ever detected have been found in the Hyades open cluster just 150 light-years distant. An open cluster is a loosely bound group of hundreds of similarly aged stars ...

Scientists have discovered what seems to be the oldest supermassive black hole yet. "Thanks to our discovery, we are able to say that in the first billion years of life of the universe, there ...

This makes them the closest black holes to the sun, much closer than the previous candidate (namely the black hole Gaia BH1, which is 480 parsecs from the sun).

The closest black holes to Earth may have just gotten trillions of miles closer. In new research published in the September issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ...