The image captures HE0435-1223, one of the best lensed quasars, with four bright images formed by a foreground galaxy. This gravitational lensing effect creates a stunning celestial arrangement. The ...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, although not as "voracious" as others on the fringes ...

Telescope readings in two near-infrared bands reveal cosmic bursts that vary in brightness and duration. ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

Studying dark matter from the first billion years is crucial. An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light years away, ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

Does the LMC have a supermassive black hole (SMBH) that's ejecting some HVSs into the Milky Way? Most stars in the Milky Way travel at about 100 km/s, whereas HVSs can travel as quickly as about ...