The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered a stunning new perspective on one of the most famous quasars in the cosmos, 3C 273, providing astronomers with unprecedented details of its energetic ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the superbright centers of active galaxies, and they're ...

Following up on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in a number of quasars, aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy has used NASA's Hubble Space ...

The brightest parts of this image — foreground stars and the bright center of the quasar — show the characteristic "starry" spikes produced by Hubble (and other telescopes') interior structure.

Caption 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 ...

US Naval Academy student Olivia Achenbach helped uncover new facets of quasars during a recent internship at the Naval Research Laboratory. Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach ...

Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe Apr. 5, 2023 — The early universe was a rambunctious place where galaxies often bumped into each other and even merged together.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented view of quasar 3C 273, one of the brightest objects in the universe, unveiling mysterious features near its core. These include an L-shaped ...