They aren’t meant to be purchased and worn around your living room. Rather, FIELD’s project Quasar helmets visualize three emotions and take wearers on a journey through space. Digital design ...

This illustration depicts a gas halo surrounding a quasar in the early Universe. The quasar, in orange, has two powerful jets and a supermassive black hole at its centre, which is surrounded by a ...

A quasar that close could have caused a lull in star formation that astronomers might someday detect by measuring precise ages for our galaxy’s oldest stars (SN: 3/23/22).

To give some idea of the luminosity of a quasar, scientists at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London describe how the nearest quasar, 3C 272, has a luminosity of 2.5 x ...

In 2021, scientists detected the most distant quasar to date, known as P172+18. It took 13 billion years for the light from the quasar’s jets to reach us, and the jets are blasting out material ...

The quasar J0439 isn't 600 trillion times as luminous as our Sun, and definitely isn't the brightest quasar in the Universe. Instead, J0439 shows the telltale signs of gravitational lensing, ...

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, whose stars ...

The quasar, J0529-4351, is located so far from Earth that its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us, meaning it is seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just under 2 ...

The quasar 3C 273 appears starlike in this optical image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. In reality, the light comes from the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole.

TOP LEFT: Quasar 3C 273 lies in a fairly sparse region of western Virgo, between the Maiden’s Spica and Leo the Lion’s Denebola. This naked-eye view shows stars to magnitude 5.0.