Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the ...

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

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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

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." ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off ... "It was very fortunate timing." Images from a network of radio telescopes across the U.S. revealed never-before-seen jets had ...

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

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.