"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...

about 17,700 light-years away, and it could hold lessons about how such structures are formed Will Sullivan The new observations could help explain how black holes became so massive in the early ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...

An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light years away, providing insights into the relationship between dark matter and ...

including large cavities in the hot gas created by the black hole’s jets. The newly found relationship for these filaments shows remarkable similarity to the one found in the tails of jellyfish ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

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