In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. This groundbreaking finding offers an unprecedented look ...

A massive galaxy (blue dot) warps the light emitted by an active black hole (orange dots) in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. | Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to ...

LOS ANGELES—Quasar Science has released the Ossium Ladder, a flexible tube light rigging solution first shown at the BSC Show in London, Feb. 16-17. The Ossium Ladder was designed in collaboration ...

Confirming a non-universal X-ray-to-ultraviolet relation with cosmic time is quite surprising and challenges our ...

Lighting solutions company Quasar Science has announced the release of the Ossium Ladder, a flexible tube light rigging solution, which the company says brings volume lighting to creators working in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a ...

The newly identified quasar, observed 13.7 billion light-years away by the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be an example of a heavy black hole "seed" in the early ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

Quasars initially confused astronomers when they were discovered. First identified as sources of radio-frequency radiation, later observations showed that the objects had optical counterparts that ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance ...