The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

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A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

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Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.