Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Telescope readings in two near-infrared bands reveal cosmic bursts that vary in brightness and duration. ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Artist's concept of light flares along Sag A*'s accretion disk. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the ...