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 ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 mass ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...