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quasars

Artwork depicting a distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy, blasting out jets of matter and energy. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

What reionized the Universe, and when?

New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent.
By Phil Plait 9 months ago
Galaxy

Mashup of a galaxy and a quasar evolved into a supermassive black hole

Even monsters start out as embryos.
By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago
Liz Black Hole GETTY

Black holes lurk in literal rings of fire

If there was an Eye of Sauron in space, it would be a black hole.
By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago
Quasars

Quasars could blow open what we still don’t know about the early universe

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago
Artwork showing a pair of quasars just a few thousand light years apart, each the center of a relatively normal galaxy that are merging with one another. Such objects should have been more common in the very young Universe. Credit: International Gemini Ob

A new way to find gigantic black holes paired up at the dawn of the Universe

By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Artwork depicting a distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy, blasting out jets of matter and energy. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

A quasar at the edge of the observable Universe has its radio turned *way* up

By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Artwork depicting the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole in a quasar, creating a jet of matter blowing outwards. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

Another record-breaking quasar with a black hole that’s *too* supermassive

By Phil Plait 2 years ago
NASA image of CQ 4479

This galaxy is spawning stars too fast for its monster black hole to eat them

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago
Artwork depicting a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk and magnetic corona, with powerful jets launching away in opposite directions. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss

How do supermassive black holes launch powerful jets of matter? With hot gas and magnetism.

By Phil Plait 2 years ago
microquasar

The 'heartbeat' of a black hole 'heard' in space for the first time ever

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago
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