Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena observed in the universe. These luminous objects, powered ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centre of ... for approximately three times higher resolution observations than would be possible with each mirror on its own. To ...

It's believed that a dead stellar remnant, or white dwarf, could be spinning precariously on the edge of the black hole, causing the explosions of high-energy ... s Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared ... that can be observed in space. University of Arizona astronomers ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...