CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the recording-breaker quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a greedy ...

The brightest object in the universe—at least, the brightest we’ve seen yet—shines 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, and it eats a sun a day. Objects like these are rare, and despite their ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new hyperluminous quasar. The newfound quasar, which received the designation eFEDSJ0828–0139, has a high star-formation rate and its ...

Astrophysicists just spotted the brightest and fastest-growing supermassive black hole — and it turns out, it was hiding in plain sight for decades. Dubbed J0529-4351, the quasar was so bright that it ...

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 / ...

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 ...