Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should ...
He added: “If we didn’t have a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy, there might be many more stars in the sky. “That’s just one example of how black holes can influence a ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...