Active Galaxies

April 17, 2025 Following Repair, NASA’s NICER Improves Daytime Measurements A NASA X-ray telescope on the International Space Station called…
Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became the subject of astronomers' interest after it was discovered to have a newborn jet blasting from…
Hubble captured intriguing hints of interaction, if not full merging, between galaxies including quasar J0742+2704. There is evidence of a…
The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars,…

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never…
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare…
A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of…
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of…

Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems…