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Scientists reveal largest map of the universe's active supermassive black holes ever created
By Patrick Pester published
A massive new 3D map of space includes more than 1 million supermassive black hole-powered quasars, which are among the brightest objects in the universe.
Brightest black hole ever discovered devours a sun's-worth of matter every day
By Ben Turner published
A distant quasar that was initially mistaken for a star is actually one of the brightest and fastest-growing black holes ever seen.
An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glare
By Robert Lea published
A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.
What is the hottest place in the universe?
By Kiley Price published
The hottest spot in the universe may well be near the edges of a supermassive black hole.
Rare 'Einstein cross' warps light from one of the universe's brightest objects in this stunning image
By Ben Turner published
Einstein predicted the existence of these crosses back in 1915. Now, they are used to study distant galaxies.
James Webb Space Telescope: Origins, design and mission objectives
By Andrew May last updated
Reference NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has launched and it's the most powerful in history, giving us the deepest ever view into our universe.
NASA discovers ultra-rare 'double quasar' about to collide into an unbelievably massive black hole
By Joanna Thompson published
A rare double quasar system 10 billion light-years away could help astronomers uncover the secrets of the early universe.
Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universe
By Robert Lea published
Scientists watched as a three-quasar system merged in a supercomputer simulation of the universe to birth a black hole 300 billion times as massive as the sun.
The 10 most massive black hole findings from 2022
By Brandon Specktor published
From "rogue" black holes cruising the cosmos to one of the oldest black hole ancestors in this universe, this year's findings truly sucked us in.
The oldest, brightest black holes in the universe were born from violent gas attacks, new study suggests
By Brandon Specktor published
Researchers found that streams of cold gas could create 'seeds' of quasars — ultraluminous supermassive black holes — in the early universe, solving a decades-old mystery.
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