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

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

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Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...

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

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...

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 ...

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Astronomers made a remarkable discovery—one of the biggest pair of jets that appear to shoot from behind a supermassive black ...