This behemoth has been powering an ultrabright quasar for 9 billion years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The fastest-growing ...

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Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

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 first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...

3C 273, a quasar (super luminous active galactic nucleus), is observable with an 8-inch telescope despite its distance of over 2 billion light-years. Its luminosity is attributed to a supermassive ...

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Scientists have discovered the most active flow of energy from a distant quasar. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the quasar is the brightest object in the ...