Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

The discovery, announced Jan. 14 at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is the most distant object ...

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

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

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 ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

He likes to deprecate his own achievements, but his colleagues agree that no man has contributed more to the study of the puzzling quasars that dot the universe. Dim Stars. Confusion about quasars ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

The time dilation of the cosmos was gleaned from studies of 190 quasars, very bright supermassive black holes seen at the center of galaxies in the distant—and, therefore, ancient—universe.

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Black holes are just one of myriad marvels in outer space. In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many ...