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.

If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicates that our galaxy is already ...

The universe might not be as you think. Until recently, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model seemed to have a lock on cosmology.

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 ...

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

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

“Most of space is cold,” says Emily Hardegree-Ullman, an astronomy professor at Colorado State University ... at night); our sun’s corona blazes at 2 million degrees, and quasar 3C273 — a spiraling ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying the brightest object ever observed in the universe. This celestial marvel, a quasar named J0529-4351, shines with a luminosity 500 ...

This quasar is the most luminous object observed ... and lead author of the study published today in Nature Astronomy. Quasars are the glowing cores of distant galaxies powered by supermassive black ...