The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...