Record-breaking quasar ate one Sun’s mass *per day* and grew to an unimaginable mass
Oh, you thought the Sun was big? That's cute.
Tag: quasar
The James Webb Space telescope peers back into the past to see galaxies being born
Although we've looked at this corner of the universe before, we've never seen it so clearly.
Astronomers have discovered the most distant radio signal ever
Its source is a radio loud quasar blasting out jets when the universe was still in its infancy.
Fastest-growing black hole in the universe eats the equivalent of one sun per day
A Sun a day keeps dark matter away?
Dark matter is colder than we thought — and we know this thanks to Einsteins crosses
New Hubble study takes us one step closer to understanding the mysterious dark matter.
Scientists discover 83 Quasars from the early universe
Talk about a massive find!
Quasar measurements suggest the universe is expanding faster than we thought
We might need some new physics to explain how this is possible.
Oldest black hole found by astronomers — the gargantuan object lies 13 billion light years away from us
It's the farthest, oldest, and perhaps most mysterious object we've ever discovered.
Scientists discover extremely rare quadruple quasar system
A team of astronomers has discovered a unique system of quadruple quasars. The quartet, discovered at the very edge of ...
Hubble Discovers Huge Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy
In an article published in the Astrophysical Journal last week, astronomers described a massive halo around the Andromeda Galaxy, extending ...
Newly discovered ancient Black hole is monstrously big for its age
Astronomers have discovered a humongous supermassive black hole that's 12 billion times as massive as the Sun. What's peculiar about ...
Distant Black Hole Spins at Half the Speed of Light
Credits: X-RAY: NASA/CXC/UNIV OF MICHIGAN/R.C.REIS ET AL; OPTICAL: NASA/STSCI About half of the Universe's lifetime ago, it was feasting time ...
Black hole bonanza discovered in neighboring galaxy
Astronomers have discovered 26 likely black holes in the Andromea Galaxy - the biggest number of black holes ever found ...
Obese black holes outshone stars in earliest galaxies
Early galaxies were very different from those we see today - it was overgrown black holes, and not stars ...
Rare and elusive triple quasar system discovered
An infrared image of the triple quasar system made using the 3.5-m aperture telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory. The ...
Largest known structure in the Universe discovered by scientists
Astronomers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire have recently published a landmark paper that describes the largest known structure in the ...
First stars formed 750 million years after the Big Bang
An artist’s rendering of the quasar 3C 279 (credit: European Southern Observatory) Determining when stars first started to form through ...
Most powerful quasar outflow detected is two trillion times more energetic than the sun
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered the most powerful quasar outflow discovered to date - five times more ...
Dark energy influence on the Universe like a roller coster ride
(c) NASA Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have used a novel technique to peer through the nature of ...
Largest 3-D map of the universe released by the SDSS [VIDEO]
This is a still image from a video fly-through of the SDSS-III galaxies mapped in Data Release 9. (c) SDSS ...
First evidence of dark galaxies from the early Universe spotted
An international team of astronomers may have come across the first sound evidence testifying the existence of dark galaxies - ...
Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”
Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Their formed after black holes devour captured material, like gas dust ...
Elemental gas clouds formed minutes after the Big Bang found
One of the fundamental backbones of the Big Bang theory states that after the rapid expansion of the Universe only ...
Enormous water reservoir found in space is bigger than 140 trillion earth oceans
Astronomers have discovered the largest body of water so far known, a reservoir of water floating in space around a ...
Most distant quasar in known Universe found
Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar known so far, dubbed ULAS J1120+0641, powered by a supermassive black hole with a ...
Serendipitous events show rare events in distant quasar
According to Murphy's Law, all great discoveries happen by mistake. This is not the case here, but scientists had the ...
Dusty Winds and the Seeded Planets
There is still some debate around how life appeared here on Earth and it is hard to find undeniable ...
