Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Astronomers have successfully observed the previouslyinvisible corona of a supermassive black hole located in the distant quasar RX J1131, about 6 billion light years from Earth. Using the Atacama ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Phoenix A* isn't just big; its existence is a cosmic puzzle. How did a 100-billion-solar-mass black hole form in a ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will likely release the first actual image of a supermassive black hole on April 10th, 2024, marking a significant advancement in observational astronomy. Existing ...

It was a “light” meal for this star destroyer. A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the light of a trillion suns, ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration detected two unique black hole merger events, GW241011 and GW241110, which featured a rapidly spinning black hole and the first observed black hole spinning backward ...