Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...

Related: What is a quasar? With the imaging spectrograph ... Hubble found lots of "weird things" around the feeding supermassive black hole powering 3C 273. "We've got a few blobs of different ...

Scientists are diving deep into the origins of supermassive black holes, using recent gravitational wave detections as a key ...

Understanding how material behaves in the vicinity of a supermassive black ... light-years from the black hole, are not only important for understanding the quasar’s energy output but also ...

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

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.

This supermassive black hole, at the heart of a quasar known as 3C 273, offers a unique view into the complex interplay of galactic forces billions of light-years away. Quasars are luminous ...

The supermassive black hole is so far from Earth that it has taken ... powers the brightest quasar ever seen by humanity. Maintaining this emission requires the black hole to consume the ...

This vast reservoir resides near a supermassive black hole, approximately 20 billion times more massive than our sun.

Astronomers discovered a massive water cloud around a black hole 12 billion light-years away, revealing insights into galaxy ...

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 ...

Some of these objects could be small galaxies falling toward the black hole, supplying it with food in the form of gas and dust that it uses to power the quasar. Not all supermassive black holes ...