The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...

Supermassive black holes, these cosmic giants lurking at the heart of galaxies, continue to intrigue scientists. A recent ...

Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and outbursts. The central regions of galaxy clusters host the universe’s ...

A closed-loop system aims to empower, not replace, professors in subjects including literature and physics. And it appears to be improving student outcomes too.

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...