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Active Galactic Nuclei

Supermassive Black Holes Seyfert Galaxies Messier 106 Blazars NGC 3783 AGN Feedback Relativistic Jets NGC 1068 Galactic Mergers Quasars Black Hole Winds Black Holes Galactic Outflows SDSS1335+0728 OJ 287 Cosmic Events Episodic AGN Gas Filaments Fanaroff-Riley Type 0 AGN Subclasses Messier 77 Galaxy Mergers Broad-Line Regions X-ray Emissions Magnetic Fields Black Hole Flares Little Red Dots Energy Emissions Gravitational Waves VV 340a CAPERS-LRD-z9 Gas Outflows Feedback Mechanisms Planetary Formation Type-2 Seyfert Galaxies

Study Finds Webb’s Little Red Dots Often Hide Obscured Black Holes and Faint Hosts

Evidence shows dust‑shrouded nuclear sources can outshine their galaxies so current telescopes frequently miss the faint extended light.

New JWST Findings Complicate Origins of Little Red Dots

Supermassive Black Hole Dust Rings Could Spawn Millions of Planets

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

Precessing Black Hole Jet in VV 340a Drives Vast Outflow in Young Disk Galaxy

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

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

Most Luminous Black-Hole Flare on Record Traced to Star Torn Apart 10 Billion Light-Years Away

Record Black Hole Flare Points to Tidal Disruption of a Giant Star

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

Space VLBI Captures Ribbon-Like Jet and Shock Wave at Core of Blazar OJ 287

Supermassive Black Hole Winds Proposed as Source of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays