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 ...

It’s one of space science’s biggest mysteries. Astronomers have spotted a cosmic oddball, and it’s staring straight at Earth.

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

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

Billions of light-years away, a cosmic “eye” stares back at Earth. It’s not the work of a dark lord, though the resemblance to Tolkien’s Eye of Sauron is uncanny. Instead, it’s the blazing heart of a ...

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 ...

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 ...