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Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

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

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

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Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

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Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...