"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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, ...

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

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.

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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 5548 is a turbulent galaxy that exhibits complex absorption features and X-ray spectral variations. The "obscurer" is an outflowing stream of weakly ionized gas that was discovered in 2007. AFGL ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole ... quasar that may have helped "turn on the lights" in the early universe The intense brightening and dimming of this quasar was observed by ...