Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...
Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...
A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...
The blazar, named J0410–0139, is located about 12.9 billion light-years away at the center of a galaxy. This makes it the ...
A quasar is a type of active galactic nucleus—a galaxy hosting a supermassive black hole that is actively consuming material. The black hole's accretion disk reaches extraordinary temperatures ...
More information: Hai-Cheng Feng et al, Velocity-resolved Reverberation Mapping of Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 4151 during Outburst Stage. II. Results of Four Seasons of Observation ...
The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...
These galaxies emit energy from their nucleus, or center – called the active galactic nucleus. In a process called accretion, ...
When fed with matter, such black holes eject jets of charged particles in two directions at the speed of light. If a jet ...