Supermassive black holes are often found at the center of galaxies, but did you know that some of the largest black holes are also the youngest? In this video, we dive into the mystery of why the most ...

Welcome to the ultimate cosmic countdown! Today, were diving into the mysterious and mind-bending world of black holes with ...

A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The quasars were powered by a pair of supermassive black holes on a ...

Quasars, short for quasi-stellar objects, were first identified in 1962 by Maarten Schmidt at the California Institute of Technology. They appear as star-like points, but they lie at enormous ...

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 ...

video: VLBI, or Very Long Baseline Interferometry, is a technique that uses multiple radio telescopes to very precisely measure the Earth's orientation. It was originally invented back in the 1960s to ...

Peering into the infancy of the universe, astronomers have recently discovered the largest and brightest quasar powered by a central black hole with a mass of 12 billion suns. To put this into ...

Twinkling like cosmic lighthouses on a shore 13 billion light-years from Earth, quasars are some of the oldest, brightest relics of the early universe that astronomers can detect today. Short for ...

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Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories have discovered a pair of gravitationally-bound quasars inside two merging galaxies. Quasars are active and luminous types of ...