Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
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 ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...
A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.