Monster black holes shooting jets of gamma-ray radiation right at us have been spotted farther away than ever before, dating back to when the universe was nearly one-tenth its current age. The five ...

Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission ...

An unusually luminous galaxy that fires off a jet of high-energy matter and radiation toward Earth. Blazars have been spotted throughout the sky, but researchers don’t know how these jets form.

Blazing brightly: NASA illustration of a blazar, with one of its jets beaming straight towards Earth. (Courtesy: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab) An international group of ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have spotted a quintet of record-breaking blazars. The five gamma-ray blazars — supremely bright galaxies that host supermassive black holes — are the most distant ever spotted ...

High-energy particles that bombard the Earth from the depths of space could originate from blazars, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers studying two classes of black-hole-powered galaxies monitored by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found evidence that they represent different sides of the same cosmic coin. By ...

Using NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, astronomers from Shanghai Normal University in China and elsewhere have investigated a distant blazar known as 4FGL J0309.9-6058. As a result, they ...

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Astronomers studying two classes of black-hole-powered galaxies have found evidence that they represent different sides of the same cosmic coin. By unraveling how these objects, called blazars, are ...