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

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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

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

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

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