An international team of astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar in the Universe, fully formed around 670 million years after the Big Bang. Credit:…
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This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. A quasar emits exceptionally large amounts of energy generated by…
The WINERED spectrograph was mounted on the 3.58-meter New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. Credit: © 2020 European Southern Observatory/B.…
An artist impression of the James Webb Space Telescope, fully deployed. Credit: NASA Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest,…
Artist’s impression of black hole jets. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others…
This artist’s illustration portrays two galaxies that existed in the first billion years of the universe. The larger galaxy at left hosts a brilliant quasar…
Figure 1. At the center of a quasar, a black hole is surrounded by a spinning accretion disk composed of dust and gas, and there…
An active galactic nucleus, or quasar, hosts a black hole with an accretion disk of matter orbiting around and two jets of plasma beaming outward.…
Like a starved dragon, the supermassive black hole in the center of quasar gobbles materials with endless appetite. These materials glare shiningly when gathering into…