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 ...

Supermassive black hole reactivates, emitting plasma jets New data sheds light on black hole’s unusual behavior since 2018 Potential white dwarf companion may explain black hole's activity ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

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

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

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

"There's always going to be a little hallucination" with machine learning, says PlayerUnknown Productions' engine team behind ...