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

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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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

NASA’s study uncovers that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by gas and dust, reshaping our understanding of galaxy ...

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

Following in the footsteps of Aristotle and Galileo, NASA scientists look to take the next step in understanding auroras.

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

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

NuSTAR's observations were then matched up with data about the same feeding supermassive black hole from NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope. The new findings could help explain how the early ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of ...