The quasar's broad-line region, where clumps of gas orbit the black hole at speeds near the speed of light—which permit ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

Accelerating "wind" from black holes may help shape the galaxies surrounding them, a new study suggests. A team of astronomers, including from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of ...

Daedalus, Vol. 143, No. 4, From Atoms to the Stars (Fall 2014), pp. 103-113 (11 pages) Quasars emit more energy than any other object in the universe, yet are not much bigger than our solar system.

A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

Astronomers find evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date. An epic deep space cosmic ballet of two giant black holes orbiting one another every two years has been ...

The most massive black holes can cover galaxies with immense radiation. However, this need not be harmful for possible ...

"It's a time when we astronomers get to be children again... It's just so extraordinary when we identified this object." That is Samuel Lai, an astronomer at the Australian National University who ...

A recent study using the James Webb Space Telescope has promoted the theory long held by certain astrophysicists that we live ...