The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a hidden population of supermassive black holes in the early Universe. These ...

The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy merger in which one impales another with intense radiation. The armed ...

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 ...

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 ...