When a spiral galaxy presents itself just right, observations reveal more detail. That's the case with NGC 7469, a spiral…
Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have detected neutrinos emanating from the energetic core of an active galaxy millions of…
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched, one of its jobs was studying galactic formation and evolution. When we…
Supermassive black holes have a complicated lifecycle. Sometimes they're "on", blasting out tremendous amounts of energy, and sometimes they're "off',…
We puny humans think we can accelerate particles? Look how proud we are of the Large Hadron Collider. But any…
Hundreds of millions of light years away, a supermassive black hole sits in the center of a galaxy cluster named…
A new method devised by a team of Chinese and US researchers could lead to accurate estimates on the masses…
The center of large galaxies are active places, where supermassive black holes pump out an incredible amount of light and…
Astronomy is, by definition, intangible. Traditional laboratory-style experiments that utilize variables and control groups are of little use to the scientists who…
Determining the distance of galaxies from our Solar System is a tricky business. Knowing just how far other galaxies are…