One key characteristic of a supermassive black hole is the duo of the extragalactic jets of material that form around its ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Astronomers have discovered a "missing link:" a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and ...

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...

Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. Black holes eat most ...

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 ...

Just like any storm or battle or Black Hole, there's an eerie silence first, and then chaos ensues. That's what Raider Nation ...

What would happen if you put a couple of physicists in a room with a rope, a box and a black hole? They might come up with a ...

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena, despite how much we continue to learn about them. While considered a mathematical possibility for many years, the first black hole wasn’t ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.