Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

Plasma jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 provide new insights into jet formation.

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by huge clouds of material. It's this material, heated by friction and gravity as ...

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

A galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Draco called 1ES 1927+654 is the focus of the excitement. For many years, scientists had classified 1ES 1927+654 as an ...

For the first time, scientists witness a supermassive black hole releasing jets of material at immense speeds, offering a glimpse into jet formation and propagation in active galactic nuclei.

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole. One supermassive black hole has ...

In 2018, a distant black hole threw a fit. The 1.4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of the galaxy 1ES 1927+654 some 270 million light-years away suddenly began spewing radiation ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.