Jets are colossal structures that erupt from the poles of an actively feeding black hole. The black hole devours clouds of ...

Here are the 10 beautiful images of galaxies captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, which includes galaxies like Hickson ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake). Hydra has the largest ...

NASA released exciting information on Thursday regarding the discovery of "monster stars" and "spiral galaxies." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers were able to identify nine "monster stars ...

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is forcing astronomers to rethink how structure and motion emerge on the grandest ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

A group of astronomers has discovered a "barred" spiral galaxy from 11.5 billion years ago. That's only 2 billion years after ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...