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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

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

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

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

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...