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

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 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 ...

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

Astronomers discover a supermassive black hole, weighing 700 million suns, firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth from ...

Astronomers discover a supermassive black hole, weighing 700 million suns, firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth from ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope just solved a ‘universe-breaking problem’ it created for astronomers more than two years ago.

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...