One of the brightest objects in the cosmos just had its close-up. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers homed in on a quasar called 3C 273, some 2.5 billion light-years from Earth.

In fact, the object is so terrifying that researchers say it may just be the hungriest and brightest black hole that we’ve ever detected. The black hole is what we call a quasar, an ...

Astronomers have identified the brightest object ever observed in the universe, a quasar named J0529-4351. This quasar is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, setting a new record for ...

A groundbreaking discovery has unveiled the brightest quasar ever observed, powered by a black hole that consumes the equivalent of a sun a day, marking a significant milestone in astronomical ...

The image shows the galaxy NGC 4438, where a supermassive black hole is releasing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. The image captures an elliptical galaxy surrounded by a dark dust lane, seen ...

Centaurus A: The image presents an elliptical galaxy encircled by a dark dust lane, observed through a ground-based telescope. J043947.08+163415.7: A shiny quasar can be seen in the image, which is ...

They have discovered what's known as a quasar, shining 500 trillion times brighter than the sun. An Australian-led team of astronomers have found what could turn out to be the brightest object in ...

Discovered just a few years ago, the quasar powering this jet formed when the universe was just 9% of its current age — within the first 1.2 billion years. Some of the brightest objects in the ...

Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery; That all started with the Big Bang BANG!” For fans of the hit comedy show The ...

The quasar was first detected using a 2.3 metre ... Dr Wolf wants that partnership to continue - but he sees a bright future for Australian-based research too, with scientists uniquely placed ...