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

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

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

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding ...

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

NASA telescopes reveal 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by dust, reshaping theories about their role in galaxy ...

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the ... wanted to see if other little red ...