Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

“In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed ... hole is drawing in matter — quasars emit electromagnetic radiation that can be ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

One of the brightest objects in the cosmos just had its close-up. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers homed in on a quasar called 3C 273, some 2.5 billion light-years from Earth. It's one of ...

The term "quasar" was first used in 1964 by astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu to describe some of the brightest objects in the universe, emitting more energy than anything else. When they were first ...

Astronomers have identified the brightest object ever observed in the universe, a quasar named J0529-4351. This quasar is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, setting a new record for ...

Things outside this area are still visible to telescopes, and this is what the Hubble telescope has been viewing. Scientists hoped to understand mysterious objects known as ‘quasars’. A quasar is ...

FLIR will focus on visible cameras, thermal cameras, and radar systems for use in challenging environmental conditions and ...