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

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

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

An ominous sight eerily similar to the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings series has been spotted in real life.

The Eye of Sauron is an integral part of the Lord of the Rings series. Now, experts have detected a similarly terrifying vision in real life.

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

Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...

A look into the throat of an active galaxy reveals a ring-shaped magnetic field that may explain extreme gamma radiation and ...

A cosmic object has been shooting jets right at us. It had been a mystery till now because it went against the rules of ...

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