Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes. The system is cataloged as J1218/1219+1035 and is ...
The first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way captured by the JWST. Credit: Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđź’ˇ ...
A rare cosmic alignment has revealed three supermassive black holes blasting radio jets at the same time inside a tangled galaxy merger, turning a distant patch of sky into a natural laboratory for ...
Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The merger is about 670 million light-years away from Earth ...
Astronomers combined images from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to create the highest-resolution image of two galaxies, IC 2163 on left and NGC 2207, on the verge of merging ...
The schematic artistic view of the Cosmic Owl, consisting of twin collisional ring galaxies with binary AGN. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.10058 An international team of astronomers ...
A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope. Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at ...
A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope. Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at ...