A monster jet of radio waves was discovered by astronomers. It’s double the width of our Milky Way galaxy and the jet is shooting out of a quasar. The quasar formed when the universe was about 1.2 ...

The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

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Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe. Since their discovery, astronomers have been keen to determine when they first appeared in our cosmic history. The newly-discovered quasar, ...

At the heart of a nearby galaxy, astronomers have spotted a pair of supermassive black holes 'furiously whirling' around each other. Like a pair of skaters, the black-hole duo generates so much energy ...