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

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

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

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

Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

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

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