A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
The blazar, named J0410–0139, is located about 12.9 billion light-years away at the center of a galaxy. This makes it the ...
This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...
A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
When fed with matter, such black holes eject jets of charged particles in two directions at the speed of light. If a jet ...
Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...