Astrochemist Ryan Fortenberry, UM associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, collaborated with Ralf Kaiser, of the ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey has studied the regions around 101 galaxies that are similar ...

A long-term survey of small, "satellite" galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions ... reconsider the function black hole jets play in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...

These dazzling images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are from the upcoming book Cosmos: Explore the wonders of the universe, which has a foreword by astrophysicist Becky Smethurst ...

A new study reveals that one such pair of jets, belonging to a black hole some 7.5 billion light-years away, stretches some 23 million light-years—the equivalent of placing 140 Milky Ways in a ...

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

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.