NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

In a new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Prof. Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery. It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central ...

Using the deepest X-ray image ever made with Chandra of Centaurus A, astronomers have found an unusual mark from the giant black hole's powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path.

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

Recent findings by the EHT collaboration reveal strong, organized magnetic fields around Sagittarius A*, suggesting common ...

Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes exceed ...

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...