Supermassive black holes literally don’t add up. Astrophysicists know it takes more time than is mathematically possible for ...

New research describes an unexpected double jet in a distant galaxy, revealing a pair of supermassive black holes on the ...

An artistic impression of the black hole jets from Mrk 501. (Emma Kun/HUN-REN Konkoly Observatory/Made with the support of AI ...

Astronomers studied 1.3 million galaxies and 8,000 X-ray-spewing supermassive black holes to find out why these gravitational ...

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are one of the most active fields of research in astronomy. In order to ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

"It is fascinating that an active galactic nucleus can change its brightness so dramatically over such a short period of time ...

Astronomers have discovered two supermassive black holes in the blazar galaxy Mrk 501 that may collide within a century, ...

Deep in the heart of the galaxy Markarian 501 some 460 million light-years away, scientists have found two supermassive black holes locked in a gravitational dance that could end in a final, violent ...

Scientists have long suspected that active supermassive black holes can kill their own host galaxies, but new research suggests these cosmic titans are more like serial killers that can extend their ...

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A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...