Nitrospirota is an archaeal phylum that’s particularly common in the terrestrial subsurface. Some species of nitrospirota are ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...
A new study sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats, thrives in a dark, oxygen-free environment.
Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...
Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.
Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.