Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black hole that is growing far faster than theory allows. Using the James Webb ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...
Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...
"The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy." ...
Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...
Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
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A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
The latest cosmic display was spotted in 2018 by a camera at the Palomar Observatory in California. It took about three months to shine at peak brightness and has been decaying in the years since. It ...