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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

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 ...

Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black ... Horizon Telescope, an expanded version of EHT that astronomers hope will capture not just images but also videos of black holes.

A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...