“You would expect more [star-forming galaxies] near the quasar than far away, and we found the exact opposite. There’s a big hole around the quasar.” The nearest star-making galaxy is at ...

To conduct their study, the researchers turned to the quasar VIK 2348–3054, located around 12.8 light-years from Earth. The distance to this quasar is very well-defined thanks to the Atacama ...

Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies ... Dark Matter Halos Measured Around Ancient Quasars Sep. 12, 2023 — At the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole.

Yue and colleagues used JWST to observe six quasar-hosting galaxies. Around the same time, astrophysicist Xuheng Ding of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study of light from quasars has provided astronomers with illuminating insights into the swirling clouds of gas that form stars and galaxies, proving that the clouds can ...

As infalling matter swirls around the quasar's maw at near-light-speed, that matter heats up and flies outward, propelled by the incredible force of its own radiation.

Before the JWST came along, high redshift for the Hubble Space Telescope meant resolving the host galaxies of quasars out to about redshift 2, or roughly 10 billion years in the past. Now, the JWST is ...

“For instance, one quasar has almost 50 galaxies around it, while another has just two. And both quasars are within the same size, volume, brightness, and time of the universe.

These colossal blobs seem to be caused by winds whipping around the huge black holes that power the quasars, and the same winds may also be preventing their home galaxies from forming new stars.

Billions of light years away, quasars are the brightest objects in the universe. So bright, in fact, ... Galaxies linked by quasar-making nebula six times bigger than the Milky Way ...

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