The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
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.
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.
A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Astrophysicists Capture Astonishing Images of Gamma-Ray Flare from Supermassive Black Hole M87 Dec. 13, 2024 — The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo ...