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 ...

"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" ...

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

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, ...

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 ...