Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long that ...

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 Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

In the case of Porphyrion (our newly found jet pair), the jets reach places 140 Milky Way galaxies apart ... at near-light speeds because of the immense gravitational forces and rotation (spin) of the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers say.

Supermassive black holes, with masses more than a million times that of our sun, are among the most fascinating and ...

These characteristics suggest a possible ancient‌ merger between Sagittarius A, the black hole of the Milky Way, and another ... have shown‍ a ‌fast rotation but without such a ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have found "compelling ... black hole's unusual spin — which is ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...