Astronomers at Caltech captured mind-blowing footage of a massive black hole spewing a jet of plasma straight toward Earth.

If you want to understand the origins of black holes, Yale astronomers say, you need to look beyond the centers of galaxies ...

We cannot escape the dimensions of the classical Universe – three spatial directions and the inexorable march of time. But gravity may not be bound by the same rules that apply to flesh and stone. It ...

A team of astrophysicists at Caltech released a high-resolution video showing a powerful jet of plasma launching from a ...

Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. Supermassive black holes can produce jets soon after tearing ...

Astronomers have found that a nearby galaxy's black hole is blasting out a far more powerful and hidden gas outflow than previously realized. Studying NGC 1068, a well-known galaxy with an actively ...

Astronomers have discovered that winds from a supermassive black hole are about 100 times more powerful than previously ...

The results demonstrate that actively growing black holes have a complex cycle of accretion, outflow and interaction with their surrounding galaxies. By separating the effects of black hole radiation, ...

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In September 2022, astronomers noticed a perplexing feature on an image of a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. A thin line stretching over 202,000 light-years pointed directly away ...