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

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.

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 ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ... "We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution maps of the ...

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... such black holes. The findings might help fill a long-standing gap in our understanding of galaxy evolution. "We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution ...