Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Scientists Say Furious Black Hole Making Nearby Stars Explode. by Frank Landymore. 10.1.24, 11:46 AM EDT. NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Actually, yes: Some of these black hole jets seem to cause stars to explode. These stars are not in the direct paths of the jets, but close enough to the near-light-speed particle beams that it ...

Is this black hole jet making stars explode? More than twice the expected amount of novae have been found popping off along the jet from M87’s supermassive black hole.

The black hole is launching a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma that is blazing through space nearly at the speed of light. Anything that is caught directly, or near, the jet "would be sizzled ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a gigantic "blowtorch-like" jet blasting out of a black hole — and it seems to be causing nearby stars to explode. The 3,000-light ...

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