This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

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

Zachary Young alleged CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the "black ...

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena observed in the universe. These luminous objects, powered ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

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

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

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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 ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

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

Dark matter has eluded us for many decades. Even our most advanced particle colliders and sophisticated underground detectors have come up short. But it may be that we can finally ...