In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. This groundbreaking finding offers an unprecedented look ...

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 ...

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

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in Australia ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding. First discovered ...

Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in Australia have just found exactly that. New research that was published in the journal Nature ...