A massive galaxy (blue dot) warps the light emitted by an active black hole (orange dots) in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. | Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped ...

In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. This groundbreaking finding offers an unprecedented look ...

Confirming a non-universal X-ray-to-ultraviolet relation with cosmic time is quite surprising and challenges our ...

Astronomers used the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to confirm that early-Universe quasars form in densely populated regions of space, revealing why previous studies yielded conflicting results. The ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Quasars are some of the most luminous and distant objects in the universe – and appear to have something in common with ordinary light bulbs, say researchers at the University of ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has given us some surprising views into our universe since 2009. Not only has it given us the first-ever image of a black hole, but it also gave us the first look at our ...

A Guide to Image-Based Lighting for Virtual Production promises to offer a comprehensive guide to mastering IBL technology and take your lighting to the next level. Quasar Science has announced the ...

We may have found traces of the very first stars in the universe. These strange objects, called Population III stars, are expected to have exploded in massive supernovas that destroyed the stars ...