Cosmic Cloak & Dagger: Quasars Shrouded by Starburst Galaxies
New reserarch has revealed that quasars, the bright centers of galaxies, can be hidden by the very galaxies they inhabit. This contradicts the old belief…
New reserarch has revealed that quasars, the bright centers of galaxies, can be hidden by the very galaxies they inhabit. This contradicts the old belief…
Astronomers have discovered that a quasar’s spectral energy distribution isn’t affected by its brightness, challenging traditional theories and emphasizing the role of accretion disk…
New research reveals that supermassive black holes consume surrounding material faster than previously believed. This insight, derived from high-resolution simulations, could explain why quasars flare…
Dark matter turns supermassive black holes into energetic quasars consistently throughout history, with implications for the past evolution of the universe. At the center of…
The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled images that show, for the first time, starlight from two colossal galaxies with actively growing black holes, known…
A group of scientists from EPFL have discovered a method to utilize the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing, achieving a precision approximately three times superior…
Scientists have observed the X-ray emissions of the brightest quasar ever recorded in the past 9 billion years of cosmic history. This quasar, known as…
Astronomers have discovered the largest cosmic explosion ever observed, AT2021lwx, which is believed to have been caused by a supermassive black hole violently disrupting a…
Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are…
Gemini North Telescope helps confirm nature of cosmic system on the verge of becoming a giant elliptical galaxy. Astronomers using an array of ground- and…
Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes, or quasars, on the verge of colliding. This unique system, J0749+2255, was found…
A study led by Anelise Audibert, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), reveals a process that explains the peculiar morphology of…
A Pair of Merging Galaxies Ignite Black Holes on a Collision Course Quasars are among the universe’s brightest fireworks. Scattered all across the sky, they…
New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive Black Holes Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly…
What Is a Quasar? A quasar is an extremely active and luminous type of active galactic nucleus (AGN). While all quasars are AGNs, not all…
Astronomers have just discovered an unknown structure in a galaxy that had been hidden in the “shadows.” They accomplished this by extending the dynamic range…
Dr. HE Zhicheng and his coworkers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a new…
Testing a new, direct method for determining the masses of supermassive black holes. Astronomers of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first…