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

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

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

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

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

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

NASA telescopes reveal 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by dust, reshaping theories about their role in galaxy ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...