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

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

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

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.

Black hole bombs have been theorised and developed since 1971, and now one was finally - safely - created in the UK.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the ...

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 ...