Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...