The black hole powering the quasar, the astronomers find, is 1.4 billion times as massive as the sun, in line with previous estimates. What’s new is the detection of the host galaxy, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

This quasar also hosts a supermassive black hole that has a mass equal to 1.6 billion of our suns. The Universe: From the Big Bang to now in 10 easy steps.

The newly discovered quasar and black hole date back to 670 million years after the Big Bang. The quasar is an incredible 1,000 times more luminous than our entire Milky Way galaxy.

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 ...

The quasar, called J0529-4351, is powered by the a black hole consuming the equivalent of one sun a day - the fastest-growing black hole known to humans so far.

A rare breed of black hole, 15 million light years away, sheds light on a cosmic mystery. ... This particular micro-quasar is not the first such object to be discovered by a long shot.

This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked.

The most distant quasar and the earliest known supermassive black hole have been discovered, shedding light on how massive galaxies formed in the early universe. This discovery was revealed ...