Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the recording-breaker quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a greedy ...

A bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, is blasting out radiation that pushes away clouds of gas in its surroundings to generate winds reaching speeds of around 36 million miles per ...

Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered the brightest known object in the early universe. Xiaohui Fan, a regents’ professor of astronomy at UA, and his post-doctoral researcher, Jinyi ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ...

Scientists have managed to weigh -- more precisely than any other technique -- a galaxy hosting a quasar, thanks to the fact that it acts as a gravitational lens. Detection of strong gravitational ...

Quasars are super bright structures at the center of some galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has given us some surprising views into our universe since 2009. Not only has it given us the first-ever image of a black hole, but it also gave us the first look at our ...

Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the universe was less than a billion years old. A quasar is a compact region powered by ...

As people, we are all shaped by the neighborhoods we grew up in, whether it was a bustling urban center or the quiet countryside. Objects in distant outer space are no different. As an astronomer at ...

A team of researchers from EPFL have found a way to use the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing to determine with precision – about 3 times more precise than any other technique – the mass of a ...