Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S.

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

A team of astronomers, including researchers from our top-rated Physics department, have discovered the largest radio jet ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling ...

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...