This quasar, called J0313-1806, can be dated back to just 670 million years after the Big Bang (the universe at this time was a mere 5% of its current age), making it the most distant and earliest ...

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Smithsonian artifacts: The first black hole photograph Lurking in a distant region of space, more than 13 billion light years away, is a luminous "quasar" fueled by a supermassive black hole 1.6 ...

Astronomers know that if they spot an incredibly luminous quasar, it means a rapidly growing supermassive black hole also is present, and J0529-4351 is the most impressive yet on both counts ...

Astronomers witnessed two galaxies engaged in an intense deep-space battle for the first time. Watch the “cosmic joust” in action.

Star formation has ceased within at least 16 million light-years of the quasar. A similar phenomenon may have fried the Milky Way when it was young.

The quasar 3C 273 appears starlike in this optical image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. In reality, the light comes from the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole.

This particular quasar, called J1342+0928, is one of the most distant ever spotted at nearly 30 billion light years away. It formed less than 700 million years after the big bang.

Back to Article List Deep-Sky Dreams: NGC 3079 and Quasar 0957+561 Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and observe it.

“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,” ...