The discovery of a rare giant radio galaxy, “Inkathazo”, will help astronomers further understand the largest structures in ...

In a remarkable stride forward for astrophysics, researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the powerful MeerKAT ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

The latest one in this class is even more puzzling. It has been dubbed Inkathazo, and it is truly massive, with cosmic jets spanning 3.3 million light-years from one end to the other. That’s ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

The Heineman Foundation, American Institute of Physics, and American Astronomical Society are pleased to announce Priyamvada ...