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

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

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

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(Image: UMBC) After the major increase in activity began in 2018, which included nearly a year of extremely high levels of X-ray emission ... in real time for a supermassive black hole. Some of the ...

high-energy electrons are indeed responsible for the flares. But the finding offers a new twist in the tale of black holes, and showcases the role the Webb Space Telescope can play in demystifying ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... of a supermassive black hole. "The mass of these supermassive black holes is very high compared to the stellar ...