Astronomers have discovered a double-record-breaking pair of quasars. Not only are they the most distant pair of merging quasars ever found, but also the only pair confirmed in the bygone era of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the closest look yet at the host galaxy of a quasar. The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of ...

Quasars, the luminous beacons at the centers of distant galaxies, have puzzled astronomers for decades with their dramatic brightness variations. Recent observations suggest that these celestial ...

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar. So says Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a key member of an ...

The galactic cores, containing huge black holes, could help explain how the universe developed into the complex cosmos it is today. Reading time 2 minutes A team of astronomers has spotted the most ...

In a groundbreaking study published on arXiv, astronomers from Seoul National University, South Korea, and collaborators across the globe have uncovered 62 new luminous quasars as part of the All-sky ...

Astronomers have crafted a map of the most powerful form of supermassive black holes across several billion light years of space. The three-dimensional map plots the locations of 1.3 million quasars, ...

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.

Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their candidacy as a potential source of dark matter. But, if they existed, they also had ...

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, ...

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 ...