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 ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

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

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

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 ...

Astronomers have warned that billions of black holes are consuming "hidden" matter in the universe. Experts identified these ...