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Chandra spotted a 300,000-light-year jet from a distant quasar. But amid this breakthrough, the telescope now faces defunding, threatening the future of U.S. X-ray astronomy.

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

The team observed two merging galaxies and discovered that the energy from a quasar is actively transforming the gas within its companion galaxy, thereby dictating whether new stars can form.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant ...

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice ...

Researchers discovered a large black hole jet from the early universe, and it's reshaping what we know about the early ...

Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe. A quasar is powered by large amounts of matter falling into the ...

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The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has just updated its global database on research and experimental development (R&D) with more recent country-level data to monitor progress towards... As ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 billion years―the most extreme concentration of ...

Previous observations of quasar host haloes at z approximate to 2 have uncovered large quantities of cool gas that exceed what is found around inactive galaxies of both lower and higher masses. To ...