The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...
Twelve billion years ago, long before our sun was even a cloud of dust, a young galaxy flared with a light that shouldn’t ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion ...
A massive galaxy (blue dot) warps the light emitted by an active black hole (orange dots) in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. | Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped ...
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole powering a quasar. A quasar is a galactic ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Quasars are some of the most luminous and distant objects in the universe – and appear to have something in common with ordinary light bulbs, say researchers at the University of ...