Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever seen in the early universe. The twin-lobed jet that existed when the universe was just 1.2 billion years old stretches out for an ...

A stronomers have detected an enormous black hole-powered jet that stretches an astonishing 200,000 light-years, making it ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The images reveal mysteries about the jet of fast-moving material leaving the black hole, and researchers now have some interesting questions to answer. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories.

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the ... Were a jet to be pointed in the ...

The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as the hungry black hole chows down on its dinner. "At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive ...

Their findings, published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage toward the black hole, jet formation occurs.

Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope.