A popular myth about black holes is that they act like giant cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking in everything around them, but Wladimir Lyra’s research found a new mechanism around supermassive ...

New evidence has come to light showing that the mysterious 'little red dots' discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could evolve into the active centers of fully formed ...

A new theory could explain the strange red dots seen by astronomers and the possibility of incredibly massive stars.

A star’s destruction exposed something astronomers normally could not see: a dormant supermassive black hole about 30,000 light-years from the center of its apparent host galaxy. An ...

NGC 1275 gamma-ray flare hit its highest Fermi-measured daily flux in 18 years on August 4, 2026 -- a factor of 10 above ...

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has identified three actively accreting supermassive black holes in the galaxy J0148-4214. Matter is ...

A popular myth about black holes is that they act like giant cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking in everything around them, but Wladimir Lyra's research found a new mechanism around supermassive black ...

Three supermassive black holes in a distant-and therefore very old-galaxy offer a glimpse into how black holes merged and grew in the early universe ...

Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources, offering the most comprehensive public view yet of the universe's hottest and most energetic objects. The ...

Every year, the Central West Astronomical Society (CWAS) brings together some of the world's most talented astrophotographers ...