"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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

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 ...

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

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

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

"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 ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...

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 ...

"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 ...