A family trip to Canterbury proved to be unexpectedly momentous for Mike Ryder. Aged 12, it was the first time he discovered ...

Lawmakers and the legal community are raising questions after a Minnesota judge took the uncommon step of overturning a unanimous jury verdict in a massive $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case, a move ...

An artist’s interpretation of a black hole. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld-CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia Commons Astronomers recently spotted two unprecedented plasma jets blasting out of a supermassive ...

In the sixth-century AD, the sailors of Constantinople lived in fear of a giant whale. Credit: Argos’ Dad / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons Under Byzantine (Eastern Roman) rule, the inhabitants of ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that's twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10 percent of its current ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have ...

The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely large black holes. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have spotted a massive ...

In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 Milky Ways in length. This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after ...

Astronomers discovered the largest plasma jets from a black hole, named ‘Porphyrion,’ spanning 23 million light-years, influencing nearby galaxies. A team of international astronomers has used the ...

A radio telescope in India has helped astronomers pinpoint the source of an unusual signal that they have identified as the longest-ever “jet” spewed by material falling into a supermassive black hole ...

A team of international astronomers has used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located 80 km away from Pune, to discover the biggest pair of plasma jets to emanate from a supermassive black ...