What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit." Probing a distant galaxy like a "cosmic crime scene" with the Hubble Space Telescope after a "tip-off" from the Chandra ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 — In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

This illustration shows a binary black hole at the centre of the quasar Markarian 231, outshining billions of stars. This image shows a possible seed for a supermassive black hole. Two seeds were ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above ... Blasting from the central galaxy — home to a black hole more than 400 million times our sun — is a powerful jet that could provide fresh ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

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A tipped dusty disk further supports this, confirming the black hole's unique sideways ... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 ...