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.

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, ...

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 ...

An aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach from the United States Naval Academy has unveiled surprising characteristics of ...

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 ...

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Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... has observed an extremely radio-loud quasar known as J1601+3102.

Supermassive black holes typically rotate with the galactic ... “It was like seeing a crime scene with multiple types of light,” NASA’s Alejandro Serrano Borlaff, a co-author of the study and ...

Some suggest energy thrown off by the black hole likely heated or pushed away the gas that would have otherwise sparked star-making episodes. Independent experts praise this discovery for challenging ...

Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...