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

"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 ...

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

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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.

Even though the temperature of the gas surrounding the quasar is still quite low at about minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit, it is ...

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 ...

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.

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

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