A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...
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 ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...