A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

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

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

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

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

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

A large international team of scientists observed a rare event in real time: a dramatic increase in radio emission and the ...