Thanks to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, a team of astronomers has recently identified 53 new specimens ...

What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of ...

Quasars, first identified in 1963, are highly luminous, star-like astronomical objects characterized by significant redshifts, indicating their immense distances and their emission of more energy than ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Space might seem calm when gazing up at the night sky, but invisible waves ripple continuously through the universe, bending space and time. These waves, known as gravitational waves, carry crucial ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

They may have merged and evolved into a mega black hole inside one of the biggest galaxies in the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Matthee (ISTA), R. Mackenzie (ETH Zurich), D. Kashino (National Observatory of Japan), S. Lilly (ETH Zurich) A new study uses spectroscopy to separate and study baby quasars.

Stephanie LaMassa did a double take. She was staring at two images on her computer screen, both of the same object — except they looked nothing alike. The first image, captured in 2000 with the Sloan ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — For the first time, astronomers have detected starlight from distant galaxies that host extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars. “Ever since the discovery of ...