Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...
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 worry us.
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...