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

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...

Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

Unveiling the real science of black holes, exploring their mysteries, extreme physics, and groundbreaking discoveries shaping ...

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

At that time, it began emitting radio waves at 60 times the previous intensity over just a few months, behavior which has never been monitored in real time for a supermassive black hole.

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

It is almost seven years since West Ham supporters marked the 25th anniversary of Bobby Moore’s death by storming onto the ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.