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

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

What lies at the end of the universe? Scientists have long speculated about the cosmos' final chapter, and their theories are as chilling as they are mysterious. Could everything freeze in eternal ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

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