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 strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...
"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...
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 ...
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 ...
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...