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An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the early 1980s, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered ...

Large-scale magnetic filaments spill downward from a black hole's jet, located in a distant cluster galaxy. Credit: Rudnick and collaborators, 2022 Large-scale magnetic filaments spill downward from a ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's longest filaments. Reading time 2 minutes A galactic filament that stretches ...

Astronomers have numerous technical terms and numbering systems for describing the universe, but one type of mysterious object has yet to be classified. For now, these oddities are named for their ...