Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Thanks to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, a team of astronomers has recently identified 53 new specimens ...

A distant galaxy has been caught in the act of shutting down. The galaxy, called CQ 4479, is still forming plenty of new stars. But it also has an actively feeding supermassive black hole at its ...

The most energetic objects in the universe may be stopping the biggest galaxies from growing bigger. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy,” said Souvik Manik, who’s one of the ...

Lurking in a distant region of space, more than 13 billion light years away, is a luminous "quasar" fueled by a supermassive black hole 1.6 billion times more massive than the sun. Astronomers ...

UK astronomers using the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii have discovered enormous quantities of cosmic dust in the most distant quasar yet observed. The quasar, called SDSS J1148+5251 is ...

Observations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe. When you purchase through links ...

Astronomers found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early universe, due to it spewing out a jet of extremely fast-moving material. Scientists have revealed in ...