"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...
Sharper views of black holes are turning what once looked like a fuzzy cosmic icon into a precision tool for testing gravity ...
A discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shedding light on the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the ...
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars ...
When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...