Quasars, the brightest objects in the cosmos, could act as cosmic signposts, directing astronomers to elusive pairs of supermassive black holes. New research suggests that quasars — the luminous ...

Astronomers have 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 is the most distant ...

Astronomers have used the wide-field view of the Dark Energy Camera to confirm that supermassive-black-hole-powered quasars in the early universe were packed into dense neighborhoods. However, it ...

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The cosmic dawn, a period less than a billion years after the Big Bang, holds one of modern astrophysics' greatest mysteries: how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grew to billions of solar masses in ...

Envision a celestial body so bright that it surpasses the combined brightness of billions of stars, an entity so strong that it consumes the material of a sun each day. The brightest known object in ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... The oldest, most distant "supermassive" black hole and quasar in the universe have both been discovered, astronomers announced Tuesday. At more than 13 ...

Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter. They shine so brightly that they are often referred to as beacons and are among the most-distant ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image ...

"Targeted searches will be up to seven times more likely to find gravitational waves from a supermassive black hole binary in a quasar than in a random massive galaxy." When you purchase through links ...

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, ...