Funneling all that material causes some black holes to unleash an extraordinary amount of energy that scientists believe fuel the formation of a quasar — the brightest known objects in the universe.

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

Kavli IPMU researchers are part of an international team that has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive ...

Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a result, they detected 19 strongly-lensed, dual and projected quasars.

The new era of nuclear power generation greater than the force of the Sun has arrived and is ready for deployment. For the ...