In the "Star Trek" episode "The Galileo Seven" (January ... on a special survey to map the Murasaki-312 quasar. A mysterious spatial phenomenon pulls the shuttle off course, however, and it ...

Quasar is short for "quasi-stellar radio source" — bright, star-like objects that emit radio waves and are powered by actively feeding supermassive black holes. The first quasars were identified ...

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 ...