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The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed dramatically in the span of just a few hundred years ...

When a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy suddenly brightened in X-rays, astronomers watched it do something they had never seen before: within hours, the flare appeared to ignite winds racing ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that most of the light around the Circinus galaxy's central black hole is coming from hot dust feeding it rather than the material getting blasted out.

It's the clearest view yet of the dust at the heart of the Circinus galaxy.

Black Hole blast unleashes ultra-fast winds at one-fifth the speed of light Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole firing off a never-before-seen cosmic blast, a rapid X-ray flare followed ...

An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from long-term multiwavelength monitoring of a distant blazar ...