A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...

European astronomers have carried out multi-wavelength radio observations of a radio galaxy designated 3C 111. Results of the observational campaign, published March 24 on the arXiv preprint server, ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

More information: Joydeep Bagchi et al, Unveiling the bulge–disc structure, AGN feedback, and baryon landscape in a massive spiral galaxy with Mpc-scale radio jets, Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

They found that the galaxy has an enormous supermassive black hole at its core—weighing in at a whopping billion times the mass of the sun—firing off radio jets that are among the largest ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.

Model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... Catherine Zhu is a writer and associate producer for CBC Radio. Her reporting interests include science, arts and culture and social justice.