According to models, as supermassive black holes orbit each other, they transfer their orbital energy to the stars and gas ...

Supermassive black holes literally don’t add up. Astrophysicists know it takes more time than is mathematically possible for ...

Learn how shifting jets in galaxy Mrk 501 exposed a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes nearing collision.

A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it ...

A supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is launching a jet of gas with such force and precision that it may be stripping its host of the raw material needed to form new stars. In VV 340a, this ...

New research describes an unexpected double jet in a distant galaxy, revealing a pair of supermassive black holes on the ...

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are one of the most active fields of research in astronomy. In order to ...

Indian astronomers have discovered a cluster of quasars that spout jets of matter that extend out for 7.2 million light-years — many times bigger than our own galaxy. The mind-bending study was ...

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four years; it is still going strong. That strange show is now being tracked by ...

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the Universe. This discovery shows that ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host. Astronomers observed a relatively weak but restless jet blasting outward from ...