NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

The blazar, named J0410–0139, is located about 12.9 billion light-years away at the center of a galaxy. This makes it the ...

About 13 billion light-years away there is a supermassive black hole actively sending out a spectacular beam of energy directly towards Earth. Interestingly, this isn't just any black hole; it's a ' ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...