Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

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

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

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

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

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space ...

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

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