NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured this view of the massive Perseus cluster, one of the largest-known galaxy clusters. This graphic contains a map of the full sky and shows four of the hundreds ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Our own galaxy exists within a neighborhood of closely gathered galaxies known as the Local Group. In the vastness of space, galaxies are arranged in filaments, clusters, and sheets, which form ...

Scientists have discovered two colossal beams of energy emerging from a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...

The supermassive black holes that sit at the center of galaxies aren't just decorative. The intense radiation they emit when ...

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...

At 23 million light-years long, the black hole jets are the largest yet seen. How big is 23 million light-years, you ask?

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...