Active galactic nuclei, energetic and luminous regions powered by an accreting supermassive black hole at the center of some galaxies, can launch a jet that drives a gas outflow, shaping star ...

Morphological structure of the galactic outflow in VV 340a. This artistic rendering illustrates a multi-phase galactic ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

Astronomers report that the active galactic nucleus at VV 340a is producing a wobbling outflow jet that challenges the ...

A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas out at a rate high enough to suppress star formation.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a unique trio of merging galaxies known as J1218/1219+1035, which is located approximately 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth. This ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Astronomers describe the discovery of the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe ejecting from a nearby ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes. The system is cataloged as J1218/1219+1035 and is ...

As it faded, powerful winds emerged, blasting material into space at approximately 60,000 km per second, about one-fifth the speed of light.

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

The Virgo cluster, despite being millions of light-years away, closest large galaxy cluster to Earth. The Virgo galaxy ...