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

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the mysteries of the universe. The U.S. National Science Foundation National ...

A recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

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

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

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

These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...

The ELT, under construction near Mount Armazones, is set to be the world’s largest visible-light telescope. It will feature a 39.3-meter-wide mirror and is expected to expand our understanding ...

“One of Hubble’s lasting achievements will be how it showed the public the wonders of the universe,” Kenneth Sembach, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told National ...

Astronomers and scientists are warning that light pollution from a planned renewable energy project could threaten the functioning of European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in ...