The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..
By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...
Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ... chance of striking Earth in just seven years.
According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...
“The flare observed at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy with JWST was so well-monitored that we are not just able to infer the properties of the radiation, but we can learn something about the ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should worry us.
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it ... 5 million kilometers) from Earth and has been making ...