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

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

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

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

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

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

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery deep beneath the Earth 's surface, uncovering what they're calling "sunken worlds ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively ... operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Academia Sinica; NASA's Chandra X-ray ...