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

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

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

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

NASA’s study uncovers that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by gas and dust, reshaping our understanding of galaxy ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...

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 ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mysterious 'little red dots' in the distant universe, sparking new theories on ...