There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick Astronomers have discovered a black hole jet that erupted into existence when the universe was less than 1.2 billion years old, or roughly 9% its current age.

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionized, as ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, sparking bizarre rumors about its origin. However, it turned out to be a small ...

Scientists reclassified PBC J2333.9-2343 as a blazar after its jet shifted toward Earth. Discover why this black hole is ...

The double-sided jet is also asymmetrical in multiple ways ... by friction from gas and dust falling into the supermassive black hole. In the case of this quasar, part of the material has been ...

Seeing a Black Hole's Jet in a New Light Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

Astronomers have spotted a young, blazing black hole that was already growing at a furious pace just one billion years after ...

Chinese astronomers investigated the spectral and temporal properties of a black hole X-ray binary system known as SLX ...