NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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Black holes are known for swallowing everything around them, but some of them also ...

A supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is launching a jet of gas with such force and precision that it may be stripping its host of the raw material needed to form new stars. In VV 340a, this ...

For over a century, astronomers have been observing the luminous jet of matter escaping from the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. The James Webb Space Telescope has just provided the sharpest ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host. Astronomers observed a relatively weak but restless jet blasting outward from ...

Stretching across 8 light-years, the rare stellar eruption is about twice the distance between our sun and the next nearest stars. The stellar jet is in the nebula Sharpless 2-284, which contains a ...

Left: The RadioAstron Space VLBI mission combined a spaceborne radio telescope (Spektr-R) with 27 ground-based radio telescopes worldwide to create a virtual telescope five times the Earth’s diameter, ...

The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped ...

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