The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy merger in which one impales another with intense radiation. The armed ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy's ...

Astronomers caught a brutal act of cosmic violence for the first time—one galaxy piercing another with deadly radiation.

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

Astronomers have captured the spectacle of two galaxies on a collision course, akin to knights in a joust, seen as they were 11.4 billion years ago. This is marked by a quasar from one galaxy ...

As one galaxy smashed into the other, the winner pieced its cosmic victim, leaving behind a high level of radiation in a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) SRGA J2306+1556 is a rare, radio-loud quasar at z ≈ 0.44 with strong X-ray absorption and an intrinsic X-ray luminosity between 1.0 and 6.0 × 10 44 erg/s. It ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the superbright centers of active galaxies, and they're ...

Giant quasar and little red dots. A NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam picture of the luminous quasar J1148+5251, an extremely rare active supermassive black hole of 10 billion ...

SDSS J141637.44+003352.2, a dual quasar at a distance for which the light reaching us was emitted 4.6 billion years ago. The two quasars are 13,000 light years apart on the sky, placing them near ...