Could it be that early black holes were much more efficient at accreting gas than their modern counterparts? Or could the ...

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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand ...

The most massive black holes can cover galaxies with immense radiation. However, this need not be harmful for possible ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert ... have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew ...

The evidence, collected over decades, shows the cosmic event taking place within a fiercely energetic object known as a quasar. Quasars are active cores of galaxies in which a supermassive black hole ...

Researchers use 3D models to understand how magnetic fields interact with the rotation of black holes. Illustration of an active quasar. Credit: NASA, ESA, and CSA Black holes are surrounded by ...

A recent study using the James Webb Space Telescope has promoted the theory long held by certain astrophysicists that we live ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

Previous observations using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the galaxy's quasar-an intense light source powered by a black hole- was not in its expected position. Further analysis of the ...