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

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

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

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

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

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 ...

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

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

Black Hole Debate Settled ... worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black ... Oct. 17, 2024 — Astronomers observed ancient ...