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

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

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

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

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 ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

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

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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 ...

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