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

An early black hole feeds too fast—yet still blasts X-rays and radio jets.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion ...

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 ...

The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns, has evaded astronomers for over 40 years because of its incredible luminosity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to ...

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 ...

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of light, created by torrid gas orbiting a ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance ...