Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times more massive than the sun, a pair of stars locked ...

"How and where particles are accelerated in the jets of supermassive black holes has been a long-standing mystery." ...

M87, located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a ...

While black holes are perplexing at any size, some of the most mysterious are hypothetical primordial black holes, those that ...

That galaxy, called NGC 5084, has been known for years, but the sideways secret of its central black hole lay hidden in old data archives. The discovery was made possible by new image analysis ...

Has the decades-long mystery behind the strange star movements in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest star cluster, finally been solved? Omega Centauri has been studied to determine if its high ...

Professor Jack Gallimore led a team of international astronomers who, for the first time, have observed evidence of magnetic ...

Some black holes are surrounded by flattened clouds of gas and dust called "accretion disks" that gradually feed them. Not all this material is destined to fall into the maw of the central black ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), famous for capturing the first images of black holes, is now set to unlock another cosmic ...

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...