A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Usually, the most thrilling black-hole news surrounds the biggest, baddest and most violent voids we can imagine. I'm talking about the supermassive black holes boasting billions of times the mass of ...

The "burp" outflows of the quasar I Zwicky 1 are traveling as fast as 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Thanks to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, a team of astronomers has recently identified 53 new specimens of a rare category of quasars, named giant radio quasars. These objects ...

Cambridge, MA- In the distant, young universe, quasars shine with a brilliance unmatched by anything in the local cosmos. Although they appear starlike in optical telescopes, quasars are actually the ...

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 ...

Observations confirm astronomers' expectation that early-Universe quasars formed in regions of space densely populated with companion galaxies. DECam's exceptionally wide field of view and special ...

Indian astronomers have discovered a cluster of quasars that spout jets of matter that extend out for 7.2 million light-years — many times bigger than our own galaxy. The mind-bending study was ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded. The glowing structures have looping, ...

(CN) — A pair of quasars merged nearly 13 billion years ago — only a scant 900 million years after the Big Bang that created the universe — in the most distant such event ever observed by astronomers.

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been uncovered by an international team of astronomers. If true, the research led ...