The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019. It was notable for its bright golden ring, ...

Despite this enormous size, the black hole is actually accreting–or eating–gas at a very low ... us to learn about the mass of the host galaxy as well. The early universe managed to produce ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

From the pictures of our galaxy’s black hole ... Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes ...

Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, mostly eats interstellar gas and dust that is drifting around. With telescopes, we have seen other black holes eating stars and even the gas ...

Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before.

This discovery explains how massive galaxy clusters evolved into the dormant, giant elliptical galaxies seen today, shedding light on the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies. Galaxy clusters ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time ...

Credit: Hung-Vi Pu (The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, 2025, Astronomy & Astrophysics) It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the supermassive ...