Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

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

A new study on some 1,600 galaxies based on data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that many small galaxies do not ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with ...

Researchers are finding out more about a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering that it has been leaking gases for several thousand years and is not the sleeping ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light-speed that stretch out for up to 7.2 million light-years, around 50 times ...

Astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole 25,640 light years away, at the center of our own galaxy earlier today in a special edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

Scientists have discovered two gargantuan radio bubbles at the center of the Milky Way, near the galaxy's supermassive black holes. These never-before-seen structures are believed to have formed ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...