By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...
Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...
A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...
Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...
Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...
Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...
Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...
The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...
"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...