Infrared observations help astronomers uncover hundreds of obscured supermassive black holes, reshaping cosmic understanding.

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany have now created the sharpest ...

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

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 ...

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

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

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

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

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

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 ...