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Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

A massive spiral galaxy known as J2345-0449 emits powerful radio jets more than 5 million light-years long. | Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al/Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (CC BY 4.0) Nearly a ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

But the evidence is mounting that almost all spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way, host feathers. So how does a galaxy get these feathers? Over the years, debates have sprung up as astronomers ...

A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a more distant, face-on spiral galaxy in ...

Astronomers studying a massive and unusual spiral galaxy have found hints at the possible fate of our own home, the Milky Way. When looking at the universe, we have found plenty of evidence to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5042, located 48 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy's center ...