Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

Quasars, short for quasi-stellar objects, were first identified in 1962 by Maarten Schmidt at the California Institute of Technology. They appear as star-like points, but they lie at enormous ...

Astronomy and biology share one basic — and unlikely — rule: If a body is going to stay alive, it’s got to eat. The Earth eats every day, though its diet consists mostly of sunlight — a constant ...

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Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.

Stephanie LaMassa did a double take. She was staring at two images on her computer screen, both of the same object — except they looked nothing alike. The first image, captured in 2000 with the Sloan ...

They may have merged and evolved into a mega black hole inside one of the biggest galaxies in the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Astrophysicists have developed a new method for pinpointing the whereabouts of extremely rare extragalactic objects. They hope their technique for finding 'changing-look quasars' will take scientists ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

These cosmic powerhouses are some of the most luminous and energetic objects in the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.