At the heart of that galaxy was a black hole spewing energy equivalent to the output of more than a trillion stars. “The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions,” said Martijn Oei ...

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Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and ...

A new study reveals that one such pair of jets, belonging to a black hole some 7.5 billion light-years away, stretches some 23 million light-years—the equivalent of placing 140 Milky Ways in a ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

The mass of this black hole is estimated to be about 30 million times that of the Sun. The post New telescope reveals ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...