The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...
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 ...
Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
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 ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...