In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

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JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

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In this instance, two enormous black holes – 100 and 140 times the mass of Earth's sun – collided. The result? A black hole the size of a whopping 240 suns. Black holes this massive shouldn't be ...

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The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...