The Chandra X-ray Observatory captured imagery of a galaxy that "appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into question the mechanisms at play in the formation of quasar jets.

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a "newborn" jet in 2020 in new and archival radio surveys, which recorded radio emissions that revealed the jet had ...

Experts have found water in the universe for the first time in history, and it could be one of the greatest achievements ever ...

"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 ...

Typically, summer internships are about gaining work experience and networking. But for Midshipman Olivia Rae Achenbach, her summer internship at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) helped reveal ...

A team of astronomers has detected 19 quasars, revealing details about supermassive black holes and cosmic dynamics.