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Quasars don't last long—so how do they get so massive?
Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...
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Hubble’s Groundbreaking Close-Up of Quasar 3C 273 Gives a Never-Before-Seen Look at a Supermassive Black Hole
One of the most exciting discoveries made by the Hubble team is the observation of a series of strange and detailed features surrounding the quasar. According to Bin Ren of the Côte d’Azur ...
Astronomers investigate an extremely X-ray-luminous, radio-loud quasar
Using the Spektr-RG (SRG) space observatory, astronomers from the Russian Academy of Sciences have inspected a radio-loud ...
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Giant quasar and little red dots (IMAGE)
Giant quasar and little red dots. A NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam picture of the luminous quasar J1148+5251, an extremely rare active supermassive black hole of 10 billion ...
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Dual Quasar (IMAGE)
SDSS J141637.44+003352.2, a dual quasar at a distance for which the light reaching us was emitted 4.6 billion years ago. The two quasars are 13,000 light years apart on the sky, placing them near ...