Quasars are found throughout the Universe, but quasar pairs are rare. “We estimate that in the distant universe, for every 1,000 quasars, there is one double quasar. So finding these double quasars is ...

Using XRISM, Japan's newest X-ray telescope, researchers measured turbulent gas driven by the supermassive black hole in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a quasar, powered by an accretion disk of gas and dust swirling into a central supermassive black hole.

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. The most luminous object in the universe ever ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has 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, ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope has identified the most distant quasar ever observed, a blazing object ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new hyperluminous quasar. The newfound quasar, which received the designation eFEDSJ0828–0139, has a high star-formation rate and its ...

We may have found traces of the very first stars in the universe. These strange objects, called Population III stars, are expected to have exploded in massive supernovas that destroyed the stars ...