About 7.4 billion light-years away, a bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out jets of plasma is ...

It's … the Eye of Sauron! Well, sort of. Though the image you're seeing bears a striking resemblance to the jarring symbol ...

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A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of ...

Billions of light-years away, a cosmic “eye” stares back at Earth. It’s not the work of a dark lord, though the resemblance ...

The 'Eye of Sauron' phenomena is an extremely powerful cosmic jet. A stream of plasma and energy emitted from celestial ...

Thanks to 15 years of high-precision radio observation with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), scientists have realized ...

Astronomers have identified a blazar resembling the mythical Eye of Sauron, potentially solving a long-standing cosmic enigma ...

This deep-space object, known as PKS 1424+240 is a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, and it may ...

The pacú Myloplus sauron, with flat teeth and a black stripe, has been discovered in the Amazon and named in honor of the ...

In The Lord of the Rings, the Eye of Sauron is a ball of energy that sits on top of Barad-dur. It was a symbol of Sauron, who created the One Ring, and few were believed to be able to survive its ...

The eye of Sauron, as depicted in “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” the 2001 film adaptation directed by Peter Jackson. Maximum Film/Alamy Stock Photo ...