An artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar named J0529-4351. It is the brightest core of a distant galaxy. : ESO/M. Kornmesser "All this light comes from a hot accretion disc that ...

The quasar, J0529-4351, is located so far from Earth that its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us, meaning it is seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just under 2 ...

The quasar, J0529-4351, is located so far from Earth that its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us, meaning it is seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just under 2 ...

The black hole powering the quasar, the astronomers find, is 1.4 billion times as massive as the sun, in line with previous estimates. What’s new is the detection of the host galaxy, whose stars ...

Astronomers know that if they spot an incredibly luminous quasar, it means a rapidly growing supermassive black hole also is present, and J0529-4351 is the most impressive yet on both counts ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent ...

Back to Article List Deep-Sky Dreams: NGC 3079 and Quasar 0957+561 Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and observe it.

Quasar 3C 273 is the first quasar ever identified. It is also the brightest, shining more than 4 trillion times as bright as Earth 's sun while sitting at a distance of more than 2.4 billion light ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile (ALMA), researchers targeted the quasar 3C 273. At 2.4 billion light-years from Earth, 3C 273 is the closest quasar to the Milky Way ...