Spanning 1 million light-years, J1007+3540's plasma jets are nearly 10 times wider than the Milky Way. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster--and after almost 100 million years of slumber, astronomers now say it's making up for lost time. According to a study published today in, J1007+3540 is erupting like a volcano and spewing plasma across interstellar space. In fact, it can lay dormant for eons.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets . The rare sight captured in stunning detail by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) isn't only a display of cosmic forces. It's helping solve a decades' long debate about the origins of massive stellar objects. Located at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy inside a nebula known as Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284), the young protostar is already upwards of 10 times the mass of our sun .