The blazar, named J0410–0139, is located about 12.9 billion light-years away at the center of a galaxy. This makes it the ...

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 ...

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

About 13 billion light-years away there is a supermassive black hole actively sending out a spectacular beam of energy directly towards Earth. Interestingly, this isn't just any black hole; it's a ' ...

When fed with matter, such black holes eject jets of charged particles in two directions at the speed of light. If a jet ...

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

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

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

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

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 ...

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