A quasar — a fast-growing black hole — was found by researchers to grow incredibly quickly in size, accumulating one Sun’s worth of mass every day — close to the absolute maximum growth limit.

New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that ...

Thanks to Hubble’s observing power, astronomers can peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole ...

"We've got a few blobs of different sizes and a mysterious L-shaped filamentary structure. This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole." ...

This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In ...

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.

In the most detailed look at a quasar's host galaxy yet, astronomers found weird stuff surrounding the central supermassive ...

Hubble's closest view of quasar 3C 273 reveals unique features, including an L-shaped filament and high-speed jets.

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the closest-ever look at the heart of a quasar—a dazzling ...

Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an ...