Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive (and scary) objects in the universe—with masses around 1 billion ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span about 140 Milky Way galaxies in length.

A 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma (superheated gas) shooting out from galaxy M87's supermassive black hole. Credit ... people about the happenings on Earth, and beyond.

The intense electromagnetic environment near a black hole can accelerate particles ... didn't include the jet on the side of the galaxy facing Earth, the average number of novas was 12.

A group of scientists was only looking to observe the cosmic web when it stumbled upon the 10,000 pairs of new blackhole jets ...

One key characteristic of a supermassive black hole is the duo of the extragalactic jets of material that form around its axis of rotation. A new study reveals that one such pair of jets ...

The jets shoot out from opposite sides of a black hole at the heart of a massive galaxy 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.CreditCredit...S. Landis & K. Rappaport (Science Communication Lab ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

Are you interested in making astronomical discoveries and contributing to the search for black holes? If your answer ... from a kilonova can be seen from Earth, day or night; however, it is ...

The authority says it could be facing a £23m black hole in its next budget due to increased demands on services, with council leader Steve Hunt writing to the Welsh and UK Governments asking for "fair ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth ... Two big questions facing astronomers is how the universe became ...