Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Hubble’s image of Markarian 231 reveals the nearest quasar to Earth, 600 million light-years away, with two supermassive black holes. Hubble’s image shows a spiral galaxy passing through NGC 1275, ...

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The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...