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Astronomers Report Evidence of a Tight Supermassive Black Hole Binary in Markarian 501

The study outlines a route to confirm a rare close pair through pulsar timing of low‑frequency gravitational waves.

Distant Quasar Defies Models With 13× Eddington Growth and Powerful Jets

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

Wobbling Black Hole Jet in Spiral Galaxy Drives 20,000-Light-Year Gas Outflow

JWST Confirms Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Traveling at About 1,000 km/s

Real-Time Black Hole Flare Triggers Ultrafast Wind at 20% Light Speed

Space Telescopes Catch Black Hole Flare That Launches Ultra-Fast Winds in Hours

Webb Confirms Overmassive Black Hole Feeding in a Galaxy 570 Million Years After the Big Bang

Record Black Hole Flare Shone With the Light of 10 Trillion Suns From 10 Billion Light-Years Away

Solar Activity Surges as Second X-Class Flare Hits Overnight

First Radio Image Resolves Two Supermassive Black Holes in Quasar OJ287

Citizen Scientists Find Most Distant, Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle With Twin Rings

VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

Chandra Finds Early Quasar’s Black Hole Growing Beyond the Eddington Limit

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Astronomers Reveal Universe’s Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Record 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Titan