Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

“In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth — and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the universe,” ...

"In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth -- and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the superbright centers of active galaxies, and they're ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

In a distant part of the universe, where astronomy uncovers the mysteries of creation, an extraordinary discovery has been ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played a key role in ending the cosmic dark ages.

"In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth—and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the universe ...