The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...

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

NASA telescopes reveal 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by dust, reshaping theories about their role in galaxy ...

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

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

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