NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

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.

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.

Astronomers witnessed two galaxies engaged in an intense deep-space battle for the first time. Watch the “cosmic joust” in action.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar.. Quasars, a shortening of the term "quasi ...

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

For the study, the researchers compared NuSTAR observations of a distant quasar — designated J1429 +5447 — with unrelated observations of four months earlier by the Chandra X-ray telescope. The ...

These results further confirm Einstein's picture of an expanding universe but contrast earlier studies that had failed to ... Quasar 'clocks' show the universe was five times slower ...

Maarten Schmidt, the Dutch-born American astronomer who explained the mysterious heavenly bodies known as quasars and in so doing helped create the modern picture of the universe, its structure ...

While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a ferocious place. WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.