Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A new image processing technique, SAUNAS, revealed X-ray plumes in the galaxy, hinting at a cosmic e... NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes have uncovered a bizarre sideways black hole in the ...

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 ...

At that time, it began emitting radio waves at 60 times the previous intensity over just a few months, behavior which has never been monitored in real time for a supermassive black hole.