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'2.5 billion light-years away': NASA's Hubble Telescope discovers a quasar near a supermassive black hole
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has delivered a new image of the quasar 3C 273, located more than 2.5 billion light-years away.
Brightest quasar: NASA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the brightest quasar ever seen in the early Universe. After 20 years of searching, astronomers have identi…
Black holes and quasars are some of the most mysterious entities in the cosmos. Check out these 7 stunning images of black ...
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reveals Secrets of a Monster Black Hole
Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...
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Hubble unveils stranger-than-ever features in distant quasar
Astronomers, utilizing the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have been able to see farther than ever before. They examined a black hole powering a quasar and discovered many ...
How black holes can lead us to thriving alien worlds
Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.
'Big wheel': NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers a mysterious galaxy 5 times the mass of Milky Way
Bicocca have identified a massive spiral galaxy, named "Big Wheel", which formed approximately two billion years after the ...
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
Credit: NASA/ESA A team of astronomers at the University of Milano ... The scientists found Big Wheel near a quasar, which is ...
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Jets From Powerful Black Holes Can Point Astronomers Toward Where − And Where Not − To Look For Life In The Universe
NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI ... key feature governing the behavior of one of the most powerful kinds of objects in the universe: the radio quasar. Radio quasars are the subclass of black holes that ...