M87 lies at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, about 55 million light-years from Earth. The black hole, with a mass ...

A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

"Looking out into the universe is uniquely allowing us to look back in time and piece together this beautiful cosmic story ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

A newly identified quasar shows sustained growth beyond the Eddington limit, prompting new examination of accretion physics, radiation trapping and jet activity in early supermassive black holes.

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system from somewhere far beyond. It ...

An early black hole feeds too fast—yet still blasts X-rays and radio jets.

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...