Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why. Using…
Webb observations will seek dusty galaxies from the first billion years of the universe. The brightest objects in the distant, young universe are quasars. These…
A new study has developed an innovative method to detect colliding supermassive black holes in our Universe. The study has just been published in the Astrophysical…
Maunakea Observatories Discover Three Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes A cosmic dance between two merging galaxies, each one containing a supermassive black hole that’s…
Most massive quasar known in early universe discovered on Maunakea. The second-most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name. Astronomers have discovered the…
Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars — spinning black holes that produce beams of plasma. The team has…
Researchers using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai’i’s Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is traveling…
A team of researchers from Russia and Greece has shown a way to determine the origins and nature of quasar light by its polarization. The…
Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within months. Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes,…
Quasars are the Universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain. In the center of this light,…
New results are among the strongest evidence yet for “spooky action at a distance.” Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere…
Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados led a team that found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early universe, due to it spewing…
Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified nearly 200 “protoclusters,” the progenitors of galaxy clusters, in the early Universe, about…
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing–an astronomical phenomenon…
The existence of large numbers of molecules in winds powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has puzzled astronomers since they were…
Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high-speed jets…
Astronomers have used ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory to solve a decades-old mystery about the origin of powerful cool gas winds in the hot environs of…
A team of astronomers, including two from MIT, has detected the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed. The black hole sits in the center…