CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study of light from quasars has provided astronomers with illuminating insights into the swirling clouds of gas that form stars and galaxies, proving that the clouds can shift ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space Telescope spies a black hole-powered quasar (pink, spiky dot in the center ...

A team of researchers led by York University Associate Professor Patrick Hall has discovered some strange behaviour occurring in distant galaxies, observing several cases of gas that is “falling” into ...

Quasars, the luminous beacons at the centers of distant galaxies, have puzzled astronomers for decades with their dramatic brightness variations. Recent observations suggest that these celestial ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their candidacy as a potential source of dark matter. But, if they existed, they also had ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories have discovered a pair of gravitationally-bound quasars inside two merging galaxies. Quasars are active and luminous types of ...

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A team of astrophysicists say quasars, some of the most brilliant phenomena in the universe, are likely caused by collisions between galaxies. Quasars are a type of active galactic nuclei; they lurk ...

Quasars, first identified in 1963, are highly luminous, star-like astronomical objects characterized by significant redshifts, indicating their immense distances and their emission of more energy than ...

M. Perri (5,6) ((1) STScI, (2) ESA, (3) JCA, UMBC, (4) Hamburg Observatory, Germany, (5) ASDC, ASI, Italy, (6) Phys. Dept., Univ. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy) ...

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Astrophysicists have developed a new method for pinpointing the whereabouts of extremely rare extragalactic objects. They hope their technique for finding 'changing-look quasars' will take scientists ...