Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that may have helped "turn ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

In a distant part of the universe, where astronomy uncovers the mysteries of creation, an extraordinary discovery has been ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has spotted the most luminous object. This record-breaking quasar, named J0529-4351, stands out for its exceptional brightness. Its light took over 12 ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that may have helped "turn on the lights" in the early universe The intense brightening and dimming of this quasar was observed ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the superbright centers of active galaxies, and they're ...

“In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth — and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the universe,” ...

"In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth -- and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

(The name “quasar” comes from the descriptive term ... “We both predicted [that] with such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we’d see an elliptical galaxy.” ...