The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

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

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

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

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every ...

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.