Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

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Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

Plasma jets seen from a black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 Jets travelled at one-third the speed of light, forming in 2024 Discovery sheds light on black hole jet formation mechanisms ...

The research focused on data gathered from seven galaxy clusters. At the centre of these clusters lie the most massive galaxies in the universe, home to supermassive black holes that are millions to ...

Researchers have discovered a celestial phenomenon that defies accepted astrophysical ideas using sophisticated data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft. Once hidden away in old star ...

A team of astronomers has revealed how black holes feed. The study, led by Valeria Olivares from University of Santiago de Chile, used data from Chandra X-ray Observatory and Very Large Telescope.

These black holes feed on surrounding gas, releasing powerful jets that cool the gas and form filaments The universe's most massive black holes fuel themselves by cooling gas around them ...