Astronomers previously thought all FRBs were generated by magnetars formed through the explosions of very young, massive stars. But new FRB is pinpointed to the outskirts of 11.3-billion-year-old ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a "newborn" ...

Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and spiral (or barred spiral) galaxies. Galaxies with irregular shapes ...

Credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado, EHT Collaboration With respect to structure, there are three types of galaxies: spiral, ...

"Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that's between a star-forming spiral and a sort of elliptical galaxy dominated by aging red stars," said Weisz. "We can tell it's got this big ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy ... 81 (M81), a grand design spiral galaxy located about 12 million ...