Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long that ...
Such a discovery is essential since it invalidates long-held assumptions regarding the size and effects that black hole jets ...
A new study reveals that one such pair of jets, belonging to a black hole some 7.5 billion light-years away, stretches some 23 million light-years—the equivalent of placing 140 Milky Ways in a ...
Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...
How large can black hole jets become? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated | Space ...
The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...
Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They ...
Strange, ultraheavy stars that are rich in barium grow massive by cannibalizing their companions, scientists discover after ...
Astronomers have discovered a "missing link:" a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and ...
We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...
NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted — about as long as 140 Milky ...
One of the observations is of supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ...