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

The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered a stunning new perspective on one of the most famous quasars in the cosmos, 3C 273, ...

Quasar 3C 273, one of the most energetic objects in the universe, has become the focus of unique observations using the ...

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 astronomers to ...

Hubble's imaging capabilities also allowed for a closer look at the quasar's extragalactic jet—a high-energy beam of material extending 300,000 light-years. Data compared with 22-year-old archival ...

Hubble provided unprecedented views of the environment around the quasar 3C 273, revealing several unusual features never ...

"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." ...

The one Hubble studied, designated 3C 273, is one of the closest of these extreme objects to Earth. 3C 273 is incredibly luminous — so much so that, if it were tens of thousands of light-years ...

Legendary Active Galaxy Contains a Monster Black Hole Amateur astronomers can observe an extraordinary celestial object known as 3C 273, the most distant target visible through a standard backyard ...

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