A galaxy hosting a quasar in the distant universe, right, jabs another galaxy with its beam of intense radiation as the two bump and collide. Credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Sergei Balashev / ...

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the molecular gas content of two galaxies involved in a cosmic collision. The one on the right hosts a quasar –– a ...

Galaxies formed and grew billions of years ago by accumulating gas from their surroundings, or colliding and merging with other young galaxies. These early stages of galaxy assembly are believed to be ...

Astronomers have used a pair of Mauna Kea telescopes to shed light on one of the universe’s earliest stages of development. Using the Gemini North and Subaru telescopes, a team led by astronomer ...

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UK astronomers using the 15-m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii have discovered enormous quantities of cosmic dust in the most distant quasar yet observed. The quasar, called SDSS J1148+5251 is ...

Quasars, the luminous beacons at the centers of distant galaxies, have puzzled astronomers for decades with their dramatic brightness variations. Recent observations suggest that these celestial ...

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars cataloged in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, only twelve candidates were identified, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the closest look yet at the host galaxy of a quasar. Credit: NASA / ESA / Bin Ren / Joseph DePasquale The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance ...