Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics ...
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 ...