Pair of Merging Quasars Reveals Secrets of the Universe’s Earliest Days
A team of astronomers has spotted the most distant merging galactic cores yet, seen as they were when the universe was less than a billion years old. The duo of…
Fastest-Growing Black Hole Is Eating a Sun Per Day
Our Sun is about 330,000 times the mass of Earth, yet it is dwarfed by the black holes that lurk at the centers of galaxies. A team of astronomers recently…
Hubble spots an ancient pair of supermassive black holes about to merge
The hearts of some galaxies glow so brightly that they are given a special name: Quasars. Powered by supermassive black holes at the center of these galaxies, these regions give…
Hubble uses cosmic optical illusion to spy a quasar 17B light-years away
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a kind of optical illusion which is helping researchers to peer deeper into the depths of our universe.
Hubble identifies a 10-billion-year-old pair of quasars in merging galaxies
A new study using Hubble has identified not one but two pairs of quasars in galaxies which are merging, giving clues about the formation of galaxies.