In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. This groundbreaking finding offers an unprecedented look ...

A massive galaxy (blue dot) warps the light emitted by an active black hole (orange dots) in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. | Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped ...

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

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 ...

Confirming a non-universal X-ray-to-ultraviolet relation with cosmic time is quite surprising and challenges our ...

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 ...

Lighting solutions company Quasar Science has announced the release of the Ossium Ladder, a flexible tube light rigging solution, which the company says brings volume lighting to creators working in ...

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 ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — 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 sun a ...

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 ...

The newly identified quasar, observed 13.7 billion light-years away by the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be an example of a heavy black hole "seed" in the early ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance ...