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 ...

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. So says Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of ...

A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of its initially estimated size, which makes its rate of feeding even more ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double the width of our ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became the subject of astronomers' interest after it was discovered to have a newborn jet blasting from the disk around its supermassive black hole in 2020, using the Karl G ...