There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.
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.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
They have uncovered evidence that points to a massive black hole that spent ages in a “quiet” phase when everything around it in the early universe roared with activity. Scientists studying cosmic ...
On Mel Waters' property in the Manastash Ridge, west of Ellensburg, Washington, there is a hole in the ground that looks like a well -- but it's not a well. Like the owners of the property before ...
Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...