At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

Astronomers have spotted a young, blazing black hole that was already growing at a furious pace just one billion years after the Big Bang. This rare discovery provides a key to understanding how ...

The researchers propose that this ejection resulted from the collision of two galaxies, causing their central black holes to ...

During growth phases, SMBH are observed as active galactic nuclei (AGN); the SMBH grows by accreting ... material to be investigated in the unresolved and partially obscured nucleus. We have obtained ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery: a blazar, a highly active and luminous galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole, that existed just one billion years after the Big Bang.

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in Nature that describes the detection of the decay products of an extremely ...

NASA has discovered a "planet-killer" blazar shooting energy toward Earth from 12.9 billion light-years away, reshaping our ...

By analyzing the data from Leahy's atlas of double radio-sources and NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), Serbian astronomers have explored an X-shaped radio galaxy designated 3C 315. Results of ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. These powerful objects sometimes enter active galactic nucleus (AGN) mode, where they pull in gas and ...

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