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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent studies suggest that this distant shell of icy bodies may have spiral arms, resembling a miniature galaxy. Using supercomputer models, researchers are now exploring its enigmatic shape ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement it was ...