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 ...
Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...