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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

NGC 2090 - A Flaky Disc: NGC 2090 is a spiral galaxy which is located in the constellation Columba. This galaxy played a ...

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Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ... First Data from XRISM Space ...

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