NASA's discovery of massive black holes like the one in quasar 3C 273 offers new insights into galactic interactions and how ...

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...

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 peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...

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

The light from this quasar has travelled over 12 billion years to reach Earth, offering astronomers a glimpse into the early universe. Its incredible brightness comes from a hot accretion disc ...

JWST confirms first-ever Einstein zig-zag in quasar J1721+8842 Six mirrored images of quasar unveil unique light-bending path Rare lensing effect aids in studying dark energy and cosmic expansion ...

This “accretion disk” in turn generates a super-heated ... When a supermassive black hole lights up like this, we call it a quasar. To get a good look at quasar jets, astronomers often use ...

Quasar jets that can be detected using very ... The direction of the jet near its source tells us about the orientation of the accretion disk, and so potentially the properties of the black ...

Quasar jets that can be detected using very ... The direction of the jet near its source tells us about the orientation of the accretion disk, and so potentially the properties of the black ...

For an active black hole, it's generally thought that there is a donut-shaped torus of gas and dust surrounding the black hole, in which there is an accretion disk of heated material aligned along the ...

This still from the simulation shows a supermassive black hole, or quasar, surrounded by a swirling disk of material called an accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group Astounding simulation ...