"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the object's structure.