A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...

A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it nothing ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery. It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...

In a new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Prof. Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

How supermassive black holes form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of ...

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.

Using the deepest X-ray image ever made with Chandra of Centaurus A, astronomers have found an unusual mark from the giant black hole's powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path.

Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the ...