"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

Typically, summer internships are about gaining work experience and networking. But for Midshipman Olivia Rae Achenbach, her ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany have now created the sharpest ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...

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

When fed with matter, such black holes eject jets of charged particles in two directions at the speed of light. If a jet ...

For many years, scientists had classified 1ES 1927+654 as an “active galactic nucleus,” or AGN, meaning it has an active ...