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An illustration of a supermassive black hole and its accretion disk. Credit: NASA/Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.)

Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Science

JWST finds oldest black hole ever seen, and it’s hungry

A multi-wavelength photograph of of the galactic center, containing the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and the young, target star cluster, IRS13. The image also shows foreground and background objects.

Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Science

Astronomers study an unlikely stellar fountain of youth

What happens at the center of a black hole?

An artist’s representation of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space, an LFBOT. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT). Credit: NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick , Mahdi Zamani

Exotic Objects, Science

‘Tasmanian devil’ rises from slumber with brilliant bursts of light

A visual representation of the tilted accretion disk model, the black hole's vertical spin axis, and the precessional jet directions.

Exotic Objects, Science

Study reveals M87 has a spinning black hole

It may not look like much, but capturing photons from the distant quasar 3C 273 is one of the most awe-inspiring observations you can make with a small telescope.

Deep-Sky Objects

Target acquired: Observe Quasar 3C 273

This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.

What we’ve learned in 60 years of studying quasars

Black holes are everywhere: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

How mass warps space-time

Do black holes have bottoms?

Exotic Objects, Science

Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods

Astronomy covers 50 years of space science

Milky Way, Observing

Find the center of the Milky Way: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher