Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

New research suggests that galaxies with quasars at their active hearts are seven times more likely to harbor elusive ...

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ancient that the jets shine in the afterglow of the Big Bang."They are ...

The newly-discovered supermassive black hole powering the quasar is not the universe's oldest, but it's pretty darn close. Nearly as old as the 13.7-billion-year-old universe itself, ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that may have helped "turn on the lights" in the early universe. The intense brightening and dimming of this quasar was ...

Stock image of a black hole. Researchers found unexpected changes in the winds surrounding a black hole in a new study. Getty Images. The team studied 130 observations of a quasar called SBS 1408 ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

"In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth -- and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The quasar hosts a supermassive black hole at its center, with the mass of 1.6 billion Suns. Compared to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which is 13.67 million times ...

A jet emerging from the quasar's supermassive black hole seems to be speeding up the farther it travels from the source. Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Olmsted illustration.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar.