Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe. A quasar is powered by large amounts of matter falling into the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Collisions and mergers ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

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Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

A groundbreaking astronomical finding has resolved a long-standing mystery about the early cosmos, according to space specialist Andy Lound. Scientists have determined that black holes from the ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...