An ancient supermassive black hole, spanning more than 200,000 light-years, has left NASA astronomers searching for answers ...
The study was published in The Astrophysical Journal. AGNs are among the universe's most luminous objects, powered by the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers.
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
It’s explored our own Solar System, studied the atmospheres of distant planets in search of signs of life and probed the ...
A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...
Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...