Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

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

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the speed of light.

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 ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.