The finding suggests the presence of an elusive black hole which may be the closest one to Earth. The star cluster, Omega Centauri, is a collection of around 10 million stars, visible as a smudge ...

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Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close ... The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth, with a mass around ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

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

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by huge clouds of material. It's this material, heated by friction and gravity as ...

This is extremely close to the black hole's event horizon," said Megan Masterson ... The galaxy is located about 270 million light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The new findings could help explain how the early universe's "dark ages" drew to a close and how black holes ... we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase ... which included nearly a year of extremely high levels of X-ray emission, the black hole quieted down ...