Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
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 ...
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mysterious 'little red dots' in the distant universe, sparking new theories on ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...
Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...