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 ...

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 ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...