The ancient barred spiral galaxy 'COSMOS-74706' is observed for its light and stellar bar, placing it on a timeline dating ...

Jets are colossal structures that erupt from the poles of an actively feeding black hole. The black hole devours clouds of ...

Astronomers have observed a spiral galaxy spraying vast jets of superheated gas like a cosmic sprinkler, revealing how ...

NASA's Hubble Finds 'Cloud-9' — the First Confirmed Detection of a Failed Galaxy ...

“This galaxy was developing bars 2 billion years after the birth of the universe," Daniel Ivanov, a graduate researcher at ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A twisting black hole jet is pushing gas across a star-forming galaxy, revealing how black holes can reshape disks from the ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

The photo of Sculptor will take your breath away. No matter how many times we see photos of different galaxies in outer space, they never cease to amaze. On Wednesday, astronomers in Chile revealed a ...