Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

The similarity of the magnetic fields at both black holes indicates it is possible Sgr A* also has one of these, the scientists suggest, despite one never being seen before. Forthcoming research ...

WASHINGTON: A sudden outburst of jets from a black hole 8,000 light years from Earth has offered astronomers a rare opportunity to measure the surrounding magnetic field, only to find it weaker than ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

New infrared observations of Sagittarius A* uncover flaring activity in its accretion disk, advancing knowledge of black ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy ... of magnitude over periods of minutes to hours, as turbulent magnetic fields are tangled and untangled in a process similar to that ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." The galaxy next door to the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), could be hiding a ...