"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 ...

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

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

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

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...

NASA's achievements, from the iconic Apollo missions to the James Webb Telescope, have redefined space exploration and ...

"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a ...

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

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