Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia ... Since recent evidence suggests that populations of black holes could exist in the central regions of globular clusters, and since ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...