Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Since their discovery 60 years ago, quasars have often been considered the brightest ...

An astrophysicist has proposed a new method for detecting slow-moving gravitational waves using light from distant quasars.

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational ...

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.

Quasars--accreting supermassive black holes--are paradoxically some of the brightest objects in the universe. Astronomers widely consider the energy from quasars to be the main driver in limiting ...

Astrophysicist Jeremy Darling from the University of Colorado Boulder is on a quest to find a new way of measuring the ...

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- A group of astronomers has found over 1,300 new quasars behind the Galactic plane by using China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST ...