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Coachella's electronic-focused Quasar stage came together in less than four months. Here's everything you need to know about the festival's newest and most ambitious project yet.
The map is based on a catalog of 1,295,502 quasar positions and redshifts, and is called "Quaia," a portmanteau of the words "quasar" and "Gaia," referring to the European Space Agency's Gaia ...
For the study, the researchers compared NuSTAR observations of a distant quasar — designated J1429 +5447 — with unrelated observations of four months earlier by the Chandra X-ray telescope. The ...
To give some idea of the luminosity of a quasar, scientists at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London describe how the nearest quasar, 3C 272, has a luminosity of 2.5 x ...
A quasar that close could have caused a lull in star formation that astronomers might someday detect by measuring precise ages for our galaxy’s oldest stars (SN: 3/23/22).
Astronomers have discovered the brightest object ever observed in the universe. Astronomers discovered a quasar, which is the "brightest of its kind" and the "most luminous object ever observed ...
Astronomers witnessed two galaxies engaged in an intense deep-space battle for the first time. Watch the “cosmic joust” in action.
The universe’s brightest object is a quasar in a distant galaxy that’s powered by the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.
Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...
NuSTAR Observations of a Varying-flux Quasar in the Epoch of Reionization. The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 2025; 979 (1): L6 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad94ee Cite This Page : ...