New photos from the James Webb Space Telescope show off the bewitching beauty of the warped quasar RX J1131-1231, which is adorned with four bright spots birthed by mind-bending space-time trickery.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar.. Quasars, a shortening of the term "quasi ...

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.

The quasar, called J0529-4351, ... He added that this object showed up in images from the ESO Schmidt Southern Sky Survey dating back to 1980, ...

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 ...

While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a ferocious place. WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

These results further confirm Einstein's picture of an expanding universe but contrast earlier studies that had failed to ... Quasar 'clocks' show the universe was five times slower ...

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 ...

Quasar ‘clocks’ show Universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang Observational data from nearly 200 quasars show Einstein correct - again - about time dilation of the cosmos ...