Rafael Mariano Grossi on the other hand is not trusted any longer, if in fact he ever was. He betrayed the IAEA. He must immediately resign for helping launch this recent blood shedding. He can blame ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

Fans of the new Quasar stage that debuted last year at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be happy to know it's coming back this year and the lineup is in. The stage will feature ...

Move over, Yuma tent and Do Lab. There's a new hot spot to listen to EDM at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and it's the Quasar Stage. The new venue made its debut on the first day ...

The J1601+3102 quasar is also of modest size, just 450 million times more massive than the sun. Quasars are sometimes known to tip scales at billions of times heavier than the sun.

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This enormous reservoir is located near a supermassive black hole, roughly 20 billion times more massive than our sun. Surrounding this black hole is the quasar APM 08279+5255, emitting energy ...

The quasar in the new study, 3C 273, was identified in 1963 by astronomer Maarten Schmidt as the first quasar. At a distance of 2.5 billion light-years it was too far away for a star.

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

The black hole powering the quasar, the astronomers find, is 1.4 billion times as massive as the sun, in line with previous estimates. What’s new is the detection of the host galaxy, whose stars ...

Astronomers have found a new record for the brightest body in the universe after discovering a monstrous quasar that shines roughly 500 trillion times brighter than the sun. More like this ...