Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration" according to the European Southern Observatory. The ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

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

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

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

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

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...

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