"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Galaxies are among the most breathtaking structures in the universe, ranging from elegant spirals to massive elliptical ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

The rings are regions of higher density, where the galactic material has been pushed together by the rippling shocks. The ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

A recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...