Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
The highest-resolution image ever taken of a supermassive black hole in action has been achieved by University of Arizona ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...
Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...