The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

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

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

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 ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

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

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our galaxy's "black hole heart." Credit: ESO ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...

This black hole is situated in the galaxy WISEA J122045.05+493304.7 and consumed one star from a binary star system, which has caused a rare double-flash tidal disruption event (TDE). Unlike most ...