In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy,” said Souvik Manik, who’s one of the ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable population of distant quasars whose radio jets balloon to scales that make our own galaxy look compact, stretching to widths roughly 50 times larger than the ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Astronomers revealed the first image showing a jet being expelled from a black hole’s outer boundary. The black hole, which is 6.5 billion times larger than the sun, is at the center of galaxy Messier ...

In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes that power high-speed, ...

Theoretical astrophysicists have developed a numerical code to describe with high mathematical precision how black holes transform their rotational energy into ultra-fast jets. (Nanowerk News) A ...

Black holes can get energy boosts by ‘snacking’, although their dish of choice is rather different from our own. Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole ...