Galaxies formed and grew billions of years ago by accumulating gas from their surroundings, or colliding and merging with other young galaxies. These early stages of galaxy assembly are believed to be ...

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the molecular gas content of two galaxies involved in a cosmic collision. The one on the right hosts a quasar –– a ...

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 ...

Astronomers have used a pair of Mauna Kea telescopes to shed light on one of the universe’s earliest stages of development. Using the Gemini North and Subaru telescopes, a team led by astronomer ...

Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the universe. Using an analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North Telescope, ...

The suspect who shot three and killed Deputy Sweety-Mashkow has succombed to his injuries in the hospital.In a post announcing his death the Indian River County Week in review: Deputy killed after ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the closest look yet at the host galaxy of a quasar. The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of ...

J0742+2704, a recently activated quasar, was discovered to possess a supermassive black hole jet emanating from a host galaxy that retains clear spiral arm morphology. This observation challenges the ...

Astronomers have discovered two large, mysterious objects blasting out of the brightest black hole in the known universe. Quasar 3C 273 is the first quasar ever identified. It is also the brightest, ...