Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

On June 22, 2025, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached a remarkable milestone—its 100,000th exposure, capturing an image of a quasar located 9 billion light-years away. The image, taken with Hubble’s ...

A monster jet of radio waves was discovered by astronomers. It’s double the width of our Milky Way galaxy and the jet is shooting out of a quasar. The quasar formed when the universe was about 1.2 ...