A supermassive black hole has unleashed a jet so ferocious that its power has been likened to a real-life version of the Death Star, only on a scale that makes the fictional weapon look quaint.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently captured an extraordinary image that features both the explosive remnants of a dead star and the birth of a new one. This ...

"Imagine that you shoot a cloud with a gun; the energy of the bullet can be as large as you wish, and the cloud won't care. Yet we see less clouds of gas where there are black holes." When you ...