Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

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

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

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

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.

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