The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted the earliest powerful "galaxy-size" wind blowing from a feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar. The powerful wind is ...

Dubbed J0529-4351, the quasar was so bright that it was first dismissed as a star. Described in a paper published in Nature Astronomy, the quasar has a mass of 17 billion Suns and it's still growing.

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center. As the black hole draws in surrounding gas and dust, it blasts out an enormous amount ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. They appear to have few ...

Potential evidence of negative quasar feedback at protocluster scales, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: ...

Avi Loeb explores the question of why some early black holes are overly-massive, defying astronomer's expectations.

Black hole in ULAS J1120+0641 has record mass compared to its galaxy. Quasar's black hole is 1.4 billion solar masses, half its galaxy's mass. Astronomers used JWST to uncover details about this ...

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 from the European University Cyprus and the University of Hawaii have investigated a recently discovered obscured hyperluminous quasar known as COS-87259. Results of the study ...

Once again, we’ve scoured the astro-marketplace to find the finest, most practical, and most innovative products for Astronomy magazine’s Star Products, 2024 edition. This collection of 35 ...