Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope have witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space. Astronomers have seen black hole jets blasting cosmic objects ...

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The giant elliptical galaxy M87 (Messier 1781) was the first black hole ever imaged and has a prominent history. Astronomers spent more than a century admiring the jet of matter blasting from the ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery. It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central ...

Supernovae, the violent explosions that occur when stars die, normally happen sporadically within galaxies. However, by shifting the angle of the Hubble Space Telescope’s line of sight toward M87, ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

The protostar is launching the longest outburst ever seen at 32 light-years long.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...