APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped light generated by a monster black hole takes center stage in one of the latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images. The luminous loop, which is strikingly ...

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 ...

Pairs of black holes have been detected in the past through their gravitational effects, but until now, scientists have never ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

LOS ANGELES—Quasar Science has released the Ossium Ladder, a flexible tube light rigging solution first shown at the BSC Show in London, Feb. 16-17. The Ossium Ladder was designed in collaboration ...

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 ...

New Haven, Conn. — A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated ...

Supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the universe. Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the ...

Quasar jets imaged by the Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT) show galactic movements in unprecedented detail. Movements of vast quantities of gas, racing away from Quasar 3C 279 at speeds near the speed of ...

Two extremely distant galaxies appear to be ramming into each other over and over again at speeds of over 1 million mph. The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given ...