Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

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

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...