Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena observed in the universe. These luminous objects, powered ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of ...

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

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

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

Astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before ...

A large international team of scientists observed a rare event in real time: a dramatic increase in radio emission and the ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ... "We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution maps of the ...

But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored ... flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the ...

Kimberly WeaverNASA Goddard Space Flight Center Some of the most enigmatic objects in the Universe are giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). Yet after 30 years of study, we don’t know precisely how ...