An international collaboration co-led by Andrew Mummery, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member (2025–30) in the School of Natural Sciences, has uncovered a universal rule governing one of the most powerful astronomical events in the universe. The scholars have shown that black holes—whether they are “stellar-mass” objects ten times the mass of our sun or supermassive giants millions of times heavier—fire powerful jets of material at the same juncture in their feeding cycles.
