New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Instead, this new research suggests that black holes actually act like "cosmic seesaws," switching between these two distinct ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the ...