Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

The Wyoming museum opened last year in a building that elegantly evokes the place’s past and the prominence of nature.

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

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