Using an observatory located deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea, an international team has detected an ultra-high-energy ...

Three and a half kilometers beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual ...

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in ...

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena observed in the universe. These luminous objects, powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, release staggering ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

The AGN located in the galaxy NGC 1068, a neighbor of the Milky Way, is one of the closest known active galactic nuclei. The Large Binocular Telescope is situated on Mount Graham, northeast of Tucson.

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can stretch for distances as great as 23 million light-years, extending way above ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an ...

Supermassive black holes are referred to as active galactic nuclei (AGN) when they are in the center of a galaxy and active. The more they consume, the brighter they are. Most galaxies have ...