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

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

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

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.