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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

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

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