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

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

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space ...

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

Astronomers have identified a rare cosmic phenomenon: a supermassive black hole, known as J0410−0139, located 12.9 billion ...

Up to 50% of feeding black holes may be hidden behind gas and dust These black holes influence star formation in galaxies Infrared data helped uncover obscured supermassive black holes ...