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

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

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 ...

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

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

One possible answer is inside-out growth: As star formation within a galaxy expands outward from the nucleus, less gas is being deposited by supernovas near the accreting black hole, and it ...

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

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 ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

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