A newfound quasar is blasting out the brightest radio emissions ever observed in the early universe, new research reports. Quasars, the brightest objects in the cosmos, are comprised of giant black ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth - the most distant quasar discovered to date. Dating back to 670 million ...

Quasars are active black holes -- primarily from the early universe. Using a special method where you observe light that has been bent by gravity on its way through the universe, a group of physics ...

Astronomers have just discovered a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core, and it's located over 12.8 billion light-years away from Earth, just a billion years shy of the Big Bang. Known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive galaxy (blue dot) warps the light emitted by an active black hole (orange dots) in a phenomenon called gravitational ...

The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own growth rules. It is devouring matter at a rate that standard physics says ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Quasars are some of the most luminous and distant objects in the universe – and appear to have something in common with ordinary light bulbs, say researchers at the University of ...