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

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

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

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 ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

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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 ...