The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

Twelve billion years ago, long before our sun was even a cloud of dust, a young galaxy flared with a light that shouldn’t ...

One of the brightest objects in the cosmos just had its close-up. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers homed in on a quasar called 3C 273, some 2.5 billion light-years from Earth. It's one of ...

In the early universe, astronomers found a rare light that breaks the rules of how black holes grow. Researchers from Waseda ...

Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole powering a quasar. A quasar is a galactic ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare, rule-breaking quasar in the early Universe that appears to be growing its central black hole ...

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Scientists using three telescopes spaced thousands of miles apart have caught the best look ever of the center of a distant quasar, an ultra-bright galaxy with a giant black hole at its core. By ...