Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black holes.

Astronomers have used two Australian radio telescopes and several optical telescopes to study complex mechanisms that are fuelling jets of material blasting away from a black hole 55 million times ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery. It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central ...

The strange galaxy Centaurus A is pictured in a new image from the European Southern Observatory. With a total exposure time of more than 50 hours this is probably the deepest view of this peculiar ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

A monster lurks in the heart of many galaxies, a supermassive black hole able to devour entire stars in a blink. These objects can be dormant, like the core of our own Milky Way galaxy, or they can be ...

A telescope in Chile has caught a spectacular new view of a peculiar galaxy with a monster black hole at its heart. The new image shows the galaxy Centaurus A, which is a sprawling elliptical galaxy ...