An artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar named J0529-4351. It is the brightest core of a distant galaxy. : ESO/M. Kornmesser "All this light comes from a hot accretion disc that ...

This artistic visualization shows J0313-1806, the most distant (and therefore earliest) quasar ever found. (Image credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva) A record-breaking quasar While this newfound ...

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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 ...

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.

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.

New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists say is the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded.

Scientists have discovered a rare arrangement of four quasars within 700,000 light-years of each other. Finding one quasar is rare, but newfound quasar quartet is the first of its kind.

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.