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

A team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void” that lurks in the middle of our ...

Each February, people across Canada participate in Black History Month events and celebrations that honour the legacy and contributions of Black people in Canada and their communities. The 2025 theme ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an ...

X-ray spectroscopic observations of the Centaurus galaxy cluster with the ... innermost orbit of an actively accreting supermassive black hole and its frequency has evolved significantly over ...

Recent research using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope reveals that black holes are not just passive consumers of matter. They actively contribute to their ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

The images show the Perseus Cluster and the Centaurus Cluster, each with a central black hole appearing as a bright white dot surrounded by patches and filaments of gas. In each image, a patch of ...