"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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 ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

Scientists have discovered that the redshift galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 has an unusually large accretion black hole for its ...

A supermassive black hole, named TXS 2013+370 and weighing 400 million times more than the Sun, has been observed firing deadly gamma-ray flares towards Earth.

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...