On 6 April 2024, the black hole let out a flare observed in mid-infrared wavelengths, followed by a radio flare counterpart. Although Sgr A* belches out the occasional flare, this is the first time we ...

The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that have increased in speed. Astronomers say they have never seen anything like it before. The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654 ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

“We started out in 2022 at an 18-minute ... so the period has basically been cut in half. That has never been observed around a supermassive black hole before.” A paper reporting the results ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew so big in such a short timescale." Astronomers have discovered a ...

Over the past few years, spectacular observations using gravitational wave detectors and vast telescope arrays have given us pretty good reasons to believe that black holes are lurking out there i ...