Blasting from the central galaxy — home to a black hole more than 400 million times our sun — is a powerful jet that could ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

Credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado, EHT Collaboration With respect to structure, there are three types of galaxies: spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Scientists also classify galaxies according ...

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a ...