The "burp" outflows of the quasar I Zwicky 1 are traveling as fast as 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ...

For a supermassive black hole to turn into a quasar, something must bring material for it to feed on near to it. This is often the result of a galaxy collision, a takeout delivery of material into the ...

A team of astronomers, including from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Arizona, analyzed years of observations of a quasar—bright cores of a galaxy thought to be ...

Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the universe. Using an analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North Telescope, ...

Their analysis shows that early quasars took in a "super boost," feasting from large reservoirs of gas that were part of early star clusters. The research appears in the journal Science. Natarajan and ...