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

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

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

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

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

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

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

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

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...

The universe, just 350 million years after the Big Bang, may have already hosted a supermassive black hole, an observation that pushes the limits of current astrophysical theory. Data from the James ...

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 ...