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Supermassive Black Holes

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

New Astrophysical Journal results tie the years-late brightening to a likely relativistic jet that challenges standard tidal-disruption models.

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

Wobbling Black Hole Jet in Spiral Galaxy Drives 20,000-Light-Year Gas Outflow

Real-Time Black Hole Flare Triggers Ultrafast Wind at 20% Light Speed

Webb Confirms Overmassive Black Hole Feeding in a Galaxy 570 Million Years After the Big Bang

Record Black Hole Flare Shone With the Light of 10 Trillion Suns From 10 Billion Light-Years Away

First Radio Image Resolves Two Supermassive Black Holes in Quasar OJ287

Citizen Scientists Find Most Distant, Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle With Twin Rings

Chandra Finds Early Quasar’s Black Hole Growing Beyond the Eddington Limit

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Astronomers Reveal Universe’s Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Record 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Titan

Space VLBI Captures Ribbon-Like Jet and Shock Wave at Core of Blazar OJ 287

Infinity Galaxy’s Newborn Black Hole Shows Evidence of Direct Collapse

Astronomers Reveal Extreme Nuclear Transients as Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions

Astronomers Capture First Evidence of Quasar Radiation Halting Star Formation in Galaxy Collision