Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

Yet, having accurate numbers is important if we want to understand black hole evolution. Fries and his colleagues in the ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

and co-lead of the project. “Along with Sgr A* having a strikingly similar polarisation structure to that seen in the much larger and more powerful M87* black hole, we’ve learned that strong ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Listen to the haunting audio clip of sound waves from a supermassive black hole 250 million light-years away, captured by ...

The project became an "all hands on deck" moment for the UMBC ... event," where a large object like a star or cloud of gas gets too close to an inactive black hole and artificially brightens it for ...

An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

A few turned out to be galaxies in the process of forming lots of stars, but many were obscured black holes. "It amazes me how useful IRAS and NuSTAR were for this project, especially despite IRAS ...