Just below it, in the constellation Cetus (The Whale), something spectacularly violent is happening in the distant background ... According to the European Space Agency, quasars are among the ...

LIGO can hear the dramatic single "crash" of cymbals from violent events like ... heard is akin to the gentle background harmony of violins. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

In weak gravitational lensing, the image of background galaxies is only slightly distorted as it passes through the cluster on its way to us. Using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, the astronomers ...

The new image shows one galaxy piercing another with intense quasar radiation. Astronomers likened the violent galaxy collision to a medieval joust.