The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ...

Astronomers have imaged a feeding black hole-powered quasar at the very edge of the universe, so far away that it was seen as it appeared less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang. The quasar ...

Abstract: Quasars in the Age of Time-Domain Astronomy: Black hole feeding, visible as quasars, is a critical ingredient in many fields from galaxy evolution to multi-messenger gravitational wave ...

Located near the quasar APM 08279+5255, this water vapour forms part of a hot, gaseous cloud stretching across hundreds of light-years, interacting with intense gravitational forces. This ...