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

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

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

Rachel Reeves faces a £20bn black hole in the public finances due to soaring interest rates and crumbling economic growth, ...

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

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

All outdoor adventurers should have one or two big and rugged duffel bags in their gear closet—ideally stuffed with outdoor ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...

Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...