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

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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 ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to scientists, there could be more black holes in the universe than previously thought. Researchers reckon ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

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

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade equipment outside the ...