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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Astronomers have crafted a map of the most powerful form of supermassive black holes across several billion light years ...

Thanks to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, a team of astronomers has recently identified 53 new specimens of a rare category of quasars, named giant radio quasars. These objects ...

With the help of machine-learning techniques, a team of astronomers has discovered a dozen quasars that have been warped by a naturally occurring cosmic “lens” and split into four similar images.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a close pair of quasars, which is ...

Astronomers have discovered a double-record-breaking pair of quasars. Not only are they the most distant pair of merging quasars ever found, but also the only pair confirmed in the bygone era of the ...

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Observations confirm astronomers' expectation that early-Universe quasars formed in regions of space densely populated with companion galaxies. DECam's exceptionally wide field of view and special ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Matthee (ISTA), R. Mackenzie (ETH Zurich), D. Kashino (National Observatory of Japan), S. Lilly (ETH Zurich) A new study uses spectroscopy to separate and study baby quasars.