The jets shoot out from opposite sides of a black hole at the heart of a massive galaxy 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.CreditCredit...S. Landis & K. Rappaport (Science Communication Lab) ...
Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has once again delivered extraordinary images from the distant corners of the universe. This time, ...
Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...
A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.
The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by ...
The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...