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 ...

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. Particles blasting from a supermassive ...

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, ...

A 570-light-year-long twisted jet of plasma is getting blasted from a distant blazar at near the speed of light. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...