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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

"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 ...

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.

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...