Using the Spektr-RG (SRG) space observatory, astronomers from the Russian Academy of Sciences have inspected a radio-loud ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a strikingly detailed view of one of the universe’s most iconic and powerful objects — the quasar 3C 273. This new glimpse into the core of the quasar, ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of massive galaxies like our own Milky Way. These ginormous cosmic beasts ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Space Telescope Science Institute sent out a tweet, announcing the observation of the 12th (and last) quasar on our Hubble Cycle 30 program. Charles Danforth (CU/Maxar)and Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU) are ...

Hubble dimmed quasar 3C 273’s glare to reveal ghostly blobs and filaments near its core—evidence of galaxy cannibalism and ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to capture a rare, close-up view of a quasar’s core.

American astronomers achieved a groundbreaking discovery, which revealed a quasar that possibly acted as one of the key factors in terminating the “dark ages” era of the universe. The NuSTAR X-ray ...

The Hubble Telescope's 1990 image of the Einstein Cross, where the gravity of a foreground galaxy lenses the light of a distant quasar into four distinct images. | Credit: NASA, ESA, and J.