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A visual representation of the tilted accretion disk model, the black hole's vertical spin axis, and the precessional jet directions.

Exotic Objects, Science

Study reveals M87 has a spinning black hole

It may not look like much, but capturing photons from the distant quasar 3C 273 is one of the most awe-inspiring observations you can make with a small telescope.

Deep-Sky Objects

Target acquired: Observe Quasar 3C 273

This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.

What we’ve learned in 60 years of studying quasars

Black holes are everywhere: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

How mass warps space-time

Do black holes have bottoms?

Exotic Objects, Science

Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods

Astronomy covers 50 years of space science

Milky Way, Observing

Find the center of the Milky Way: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Science

The Great Hum: Scientists finally detect continuous gravitational waves rippling across space-time

Galaxy NGC 1448 with active galactic nucleus

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Even ‘lonely’ galaxies can host snacking supermassive black holes

Exotic Objects, Science

Hunting rogue black holes in the Milky Way

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Science

Ask Astro: Why do colliding supermassive black holes give off low-frequency gravitational waves?