Blasting from the central galaxy — home to a black hole more than 400 million times our sun — is a powerful jet that could provide fresh clues about how galaxies and their black holes evolve in tandem ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something extraordinary: a quasar within the Milky Way! This video unpacks the science behind quasars, the telescope’s incredible capabilities, and ...

Coachella's electronic-focused Quasar stage came together in less than four months. Here's everything you need to know about the festival's newest and most ambitious project yet.

A new, Yale-led study has identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended.

The map, assembled with data from the Gaia spacecraft, shows how the spread of dark matter across space matches that described by the Cosmic Microwave Background.

The closest, brightest quasar — called 3C 273 — is even visible to amateur astronomers with at least an 8-inch telescope, or astro-imagers, as it shines at magnitude 12.9 in the constellation ...

The universe’s brightest object is a quasar in a distant galaxy that’s powered by the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, according to a new study.

Astronomers discovered a quasar, which is the "brightest of its kind" and the "most luminous object ever observed," using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a ...

Star formation has ceased within at least 16 million light-years of the quasar. A similar phenomenon may have fried the Milky Way when it was young.

In the most detailed look at a quasar's host galaxy yet, astronomers found weird stuff surrounding the central supermassive black hole.

Until JWST’s sharp infrared eyes came along, it wasn’t possible to see the galaxies hosting extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars.

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most ...