Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
"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 accreting supermassive black hole." ...
Blasting from the central galaxy — home to a black hole more than 400 million times our sun — is a powerful jet that could ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...
At the center of almost every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. Well, astronomers think it’s every galaxy, but it ...
The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...