Scientists used imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope to identify faint black holes in galaxies that formed during the ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black ...

Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this stellar black hole and many others like it. There are approximately 100 million ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK Treasury is refusing to provide key details of the £22bn fiscal “black hole” that chancellor ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted — about as long as 140 ...

An artist’s illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light ...

LOS ANGELES — A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized ...

A supermassive black hole blasting astrophysical jets into space has carved out the biggest structure of galactic origin we've ever seen. It's been named Porphyrion, after the king of giants in Greek ...

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The largest-ever pair of radiation jets has been discovered bursting out of a distant supermassive black hole, burning brighter than 100 galaxies, or over a trillion stars. From the end of one jet ...

A newly discovered, distant duo of black hole jets is the largest of its kind ever seen. Formed when the universe was less than half its current age, the pair collectively spewed the energy ...