Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

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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 ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

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 ...

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

The researchers identified these giant black holes by peering through clouds of dust and gas in infrared light. The finds could help astronomers refine their theories of how galaxies evolve ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...