Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 10 years ago on June 26, 2015, legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.

The Gemini North telescope and Subaru Telescope have been used to discover most distant merging quasars yet, "seen over 900 ...

Humanity is fascinated by the mysteries of the universe. Astrophysics is the field of study where astronomers use physics to ...

Dr Victoria Fawcett has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical ...

Quasars reached their peak around 11 billion years ago, when the universe was just 2 to 3 billion years old. These massive black holes devoured stars and gas with relentless fury. Fast forward to ...

Two supermassive black holes carrying the faint light of the Big Bang, 11.6 billion and 11.7 billion light-years away, have ...

Astronomers have found a remarkably powerful jet shooting out from a black hole that formed just 3 billion years after the ...

Astronomers have uncovered ultra-powerful X-ray jets from two ancient supermassive black holes located over 11 billion light-years away. These colossal jets, spanning 300,000 light-years, are nearly ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered 25 new quasars by analyzing multiwavelength data from various surveys. All the newfound quasars were detected at redshifts greater than 4.6. The ...