"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.

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

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.

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

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

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

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

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

The black hole's accretion disk reaches extraordinary ... The Hubble data clearly shows J0742+2704 is still a spiral galaxy, but there are some hints of interactions with other objects that ...