The quasar is so bright it completely outshines its host galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA) The closest quasar is 2.3 billion light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

Astronomers have characterized a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant ...

The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns, has evaded astronomers for over 40 years because of its incredible luminosity. Skip to main content. Scientific American. February 20, 2024.

The universe’s brightest object is a quasar in a distant galaxy that’s powered by the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, according to a new study.

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

This means that the incredibly bright light of quasars has traveled billions of years to reach us and tells us that quasar-hosting galaxies are seen as they existed when the 13.8 billion-year-old ...

This quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the universe to date. An image shows the region of the sky in which the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351 is situated.

Enter NRAO 530, a bright quasar located roughly 7.5 billion light-years away. According to a global team of scientists, it is the most distant object that the Event Horizon has imaged thus far.

Those three bright spots are actually the quasar, duplicated twice. The "ring" itself, meanwhile, is the distorted image of the more distant galaxy. Dark Secrets.

The blindingly bright quasar, fueled by what Zakamska calls a "monster" black hole at the center of the galactic swirl, is a rare "extremely red" quasar, about 11.5 billion years old and one of the ...

New photos from the James Webb Space Telescope show off the bewitching beauty of the warped quasar RX J1131-1231, which is adorned with four bright spots birthed by mind-bending space-time trickery.