Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...

The quasar, as it is called, was found by an Australian-led team and reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. The researchers said a super-bright, highly energetic disk of gas and dust ...

Chinese astronomers have conducted multi-frequency polarimetric observations of a quasar known as 1604+159. Results of the observational campaign, published August 13 on the pre-print server arXiv ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

In the contemporary Universe, massive galaxies are plentiful. But the Universe wasn’t always like this. Astronomers think that galaxies grew large through mergers, so what we see in space is the ...

A shroud of gas stretches up to a million light years around every galaxy and is its first interaction with the wider ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of ...

Astronomers have observed a rare galaxy merger from 12.8 billion years ago, using the ALMA radio telescope. This early cosmic ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. By ...

New York, NY, United States - August 26, 2024 — Quasar Markets, a pioneering financial services marketplace that integrates advanced AI technologies, is thrilled to announce its new partnership ...

The study, published in Nature Astronomy, notes that this quasar, named J0529-4351, is growing at a rate equivalent to one sun per day and is over 500 trillion times brighter than the sun.

Astronomers have discovered the brightest object ever observed, a quasar named J0529-4351, shining 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun. Fueled by a supermassive black hole, this quasar ...