Not long ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into Cosmic Dawn, the cosmological period when the first galaxies ...
The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...
NASA's discovery of massive black holes like the one in quasar 3C 273 offers new insights into galactic interactions and how ...
the quasar 3C 273. Quasars almost look like stars but they are not, they are galactic nuclei that emit powerful radio waves, ...
NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A.
Professor Jack Gallimore led a team of international astronomers who, for the first time, have observed evidence of magnetic ...
New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that ...
A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...
This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In ...
A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...
A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...