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

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 ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...