Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...
For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...
Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...
Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's ...
Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...
"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...
Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...
NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black ...
James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.
The two galaxies shown here, NGC 6278 and PGC 039620, are representative of the more than 1,600 galaxies analyzed in a new study. Both galaxies are ...
Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...
For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty wind blasting ...