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Scientists create lab-grown black hole jets

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An artist’s depiction of a black hole releasing jets. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An experiment that uses proton beams to probe how plasma and magnetic fields interact may have solved the mystery of how quasars and other active supermassive black… Read More »

Hubble Space Telescope finds closest supermassive black hole to Earth – a cosmic clue frozen in time

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the closest supermassive black hole ever seen to Earth, a cosmic titan “frozen in time.” As an elusive example of an “intermediate-mass black hole,” the object could serve as a missing link in understanding the connection between stellar mass and supermassive black holes. The black hole appears… Read More »