About 7.4 billion light-years away, a bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out jets of plasma is ...

Researchers have combined 15 years' worth of radio data to peer through the cone of a high-energy jet and unravel the ...

It's … the Eye of Sauron! Well, sort of. Though the image you're seeing bears a striking resemblance to the jarring symbol ...

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A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of ...

The Lord of the Rings introduces a richly built world filled with heroes and villains, all fighting to control the powerful ...

Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said ...

An ominous sight eerily similar to the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings series has been spotted in real life.

The pacú Myloplus sauron, with flat teeth and a black stripe, has been discovered in the Amazon and named in honor of the ...

Thanks to 15 years of high-precision radio observation with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), scientists have realized ...

Blazars are a type of active galaxy where a supermassive black hole at the center devours surrounding matter, blasting out ...

This deep-space object, known as PKS 1424+240 is a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, and it may ...