Indeed, Hubble’s high-resolution images of 3C 273 offer a level of detail that was previously impossible to achieve, making it a pivotal moment in quasar research. The discovery of these fine ...

In this artistic rendering, light from a distant quasar passes through the halo-like circumgalactic medium of a galaxy on its way to Earth, where it is measured by Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph ...

A quasar is a galactic center that glows brightly ... surrounding quasars is far more complex than first suspected. The images suggested galactic collisions and mergers between quasars and ...

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 ...

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 ...

How supermassive black holes form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of virtually all galaxies. Recent Hubble observations have bolstered the ...

(NASA, ESA, Bin Ren (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS); Acknowledgment: John Bahcall (IAS); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) This is a picture of the core of a quasar. Specifically ...

This supermassive black hole, at the heart of a quasar known as 3C 273 ... described lots of "weird things" that could be seen in the images. "We've got a few blobs of different sizes and a ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion light-years away.

LOFAR images revealed that J1601+3102 has an extended ... The northern lobe is located about 29,000 light years from the optical quasar and has a total flux density of 50.6 mJy, while the southern ...

unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar. Quasars, a shortening of the term "quasi-stellar objects," are blindingly bright galaxy cores ...