Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

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M87 is one of the larger galaxies in our local patch of the Universe, and its central black hole has active jets. During an earlier period of regular observations, the Hubble Space Telescope had found ...

A pair of jets blasting out of a black hole spans 23 million light years, the equivalent of 220 Milky Way galaxies in length. This is so large that it may change our understanding both of black ...

Astrophysicists have uncovered a possible swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes hidden within a stellar cluster known as ...

The merger of the large spiral galaxy and the smaller elliptical galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, is located around 465 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor.

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon. NPR visited the facility to find out how the ...

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ... As it sits nearly perfectly face-on with respect to Earth, its spiral arms can be seen incredibly clearly. A pair of colliding galaxies ...

Galaxies crash against one another, and black holes swallow stars whole. Here on Earth, humans find that as soon as one ...

Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth ... Two big questions facing astronomers is how the universe became ...

In around a billion years, the cluster is expected to dissolve entirely, leaving behind only black holes orbiting the Milky ...