Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ancient that the jets shine in the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.

A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...

A supermassive black hole inflates massive lobes, visible here in X-rays, above and below the Centaurus A galaxy. Astronomers recently imaged where the jets that create these lobes begin.

Observations of binary systems containing a black hole and a companion star, such as MAXI J1820+070, could provide more information about how jets are formed and how the jets interact with their ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span about 140 Milky Way galaxies in length.

The jets were captured being released from a black hole 6.5 billion times the size of our sun. The image is the first to connect the jets to the edge of the supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million light-years long, equal to 140 side-by-side Milky Way galaxies.

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you’d get sucked in by its gravitational ...

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant galaxy - the largest such jets ever spotted, extending about 140 times ...

The sharpness helped researchers compare jets from Centaurus A's black hole — which is 55 million times more massive than our sun — to those escaping from the Messier 87 galaxy, about 54 ...

A pair of jets blasting out of a black hole spans 23 million light years, the equivalent of 220 Milky Way galaxies in length. This is so large that it may change our understanding both of black ...