Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

The first image captured by the unfinished SKA-Low radio telescope in WA’s Murchison region has revealed a rare galaxy with a ...

In fact, these strong X-ray emissions led to the discovery of the first black hole ... black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, 53 million light-years away. The image of the latter ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole ... checked the ALMA images showing the ...

J043947.08+163415.7: A shiny quasar can be seen in the image, which is powered by a supermassive black hole in the early Universe. It is the brightest quasar discovered by the researchers at that ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.