The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

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

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

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

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

An illustration of the largest radio jet ever seen in the early universe twice as long as the Milky Way. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick Astronomers have detected the largest black hole ...