Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

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

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most complex space observatory that serves thousands of astronomers ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...