"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) noticed an infrared flare from the Milky Way's supermassive black ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

A black hole 400 million times the Sun’s mass has erupted, sending a record-breaking gamma-ray flare towards Earth. The event reveals the violent power of the universe ...

Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, ...

A supermassive black hole, named TXS 2013+370 and weighing 400 million times more than the Sun, has been observed firing deadly gamma-ray flares towards Earth.