The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Christian Wolf, lead author of the study published in Nature Astronomy, expressed surprise that such a luminous object had remained undetected for so long. The quasar had been visible in sky surveys ...

As this material is accelerated around the hole, it is torn apart and emits a huge amount of light, so much so that even an object as distant as J0529-4351 is still visible to us. This quasar's ...

Astronomers have identified the brightest object ever observed in the universe, a quasar named J0529-4351. This quasar is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, setting a new record for ...

Distant Quasar: Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Astronomers from the Steward Observatory in Arizona and elsewhere report the discovery of a structure consisting of a ...

Hubble probes Quasar tsunamis rip across galaxies: This is an artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at ...

A major realization of Einstein’s general relativity is the fact that massive objects warp space-time in a way that is ...