The quasar'’s black hole is consuming the equivalent of 40 times the mass of our sSun each year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Lurking in a distant region of space, more than 13 billion light years away, is a luminous "quasar" fueled by a supermassive black hole 1.6 billion times more massive than the sun. Astronomers ...

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A monster jet of radio waves was discovered by astronomers. It’s double the width of our Milky Way galaxy and the jet is shooting out of a quasar. The quasar formed when the universe was about 1.2 ...

The galactic nuclei known as quasars are unfathomably bright celestial objects powered by supermassive black holes. Now, astronomers using some of the most advanced terrestrial and space telescopes in ...

At a distance of about 13 billion lightyears, the most distant supermassive black hole known so far has been spotted by an international team of astronomers. That incredible distance means the object ...

Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe. Since their discovery, astronomers have been keen to determine when they first appeared in our cosmic history. The newly-discovered quasar, ...

Young galaxies are often surrounded by a halo of hydrogen gas. Over time this gas can be pulled inward, where it can feed star production in the galaxy. While we've known these halos existed, it has ...

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