NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

Feeding supermassive black holes are more common in the cosmos than previously suspected. What could possibly hide such ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

Seeing a Black Hole's Jet in a New Light Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

Astronomers discover a supermassive black hole, weighing 700 million suns, firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth from ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...