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Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding ...

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded ... decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around ...

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

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

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