Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic ...

Your support makes all the difference. The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy might not be accurate, a new study has claimed. The picture – initially ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

A trio of Japanese astronomers has challenged the accuracy of the first-ever image showing the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy. If confirmed, the findings of the ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the ...

The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy might not be accurate, a new study has claimed. The picture – initially published in 2022, after years of intense ...