The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.
Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...
Unveiling the real science of black holes, exploring their mysteries, extreme physics, and groundbreaking discoveries shaping our understanding of the universe.
Dark matter has eluded us for many decades. Even our most advanced particle colliders and sophisticated underground detectors have come up short. But it may be that we can finally ...
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 ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.
Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
Up to 50% of feeding black holes may be hidden behind gas and dust These black holes influence star formation in galaxies Infrared data helped uncover obscured supermassive black holes ...
Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.