Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should ...
Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...