Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf galaxies — small, faint galaxies containing thousands to several billions of stars but very little gas.

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

using Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera to track the black hole’s activity. The team spied five to six big flares a day as well as smaller flashes of light in between. “Flares are expected to ...

Related: Can the black hole in the center of our galaxy expand to our solar system?] In the new study, the team used JWST’s near infrared camera (NIRCam). This instrument can simultaneously ...

A Kansas University expert has outlined why he believes images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope provide evidence the ...

"Dramatic activity serves as a beacon, allowing us to identify hidden black holes in these small galaxies." Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf ...

This mosaic shows a series of images featuring intermediate-mass black hole candidates, arranged in increasing order of stellar mass, captured with the Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam.