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 ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

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

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

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 ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities.

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act.