Table of Contents A quasar is essentially a fast-growing black hole. Black holes are famously invisible because even light can’t escape them. They are only visible to our eyes when they expand ...

This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole." The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the ...

Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...

Things outside this area are still visible to telescopes, and this is what the Hubble telescope has been viewing. A quasar is found at the centre of active galaxies and glow brightly, like a star.

Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes.

As a result, they found that the quasar hosts a large extended radio ... electromagnetic radiation observable in radio, infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. They are among the ...

Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows ...

New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that scientists are just beginning to explain. Nearly 35 years after its ...

Things outside this area are still visible to telescopes, and this is what the Hubble telescope has been viewing. Scientists hoped to understand mysterious objects known as ‘quasars’. A quasar is ...