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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...

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

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

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...