The study, led by researchers of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), analyzed a sample of 21 quasars, among the most distant ever discovered ... titanic quasars, first formed during ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the first-ever "Einstein zig-zag," a distant quasar lensed six times by two ...

shows an ancient quasar (circled in red) with fewer than expected neighboring galaxies (bright blobs), challenging physicists’ understanding of how the first quasars and supermassive black holes ...

These quasars are believed to have formed as early as 100 million years after the Big Bang, originating from dense regions of primordial matter. The researchers discovered that while some quasars ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their ...

New evidence has been discovered explaining how supermassive black holes formed in the first billion years of the Universe's ...

The newly discovered black hole is busily devouring material at the centre of a galaxy - marking it out as a so-called quasar ... dark ages - just before the first stars appeared.

Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the universe. Using an analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North Telescope, ...

Lensed quasar: WFI2033-4723 is among the five best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy creates four distinct images of the distant quasar around it. Lensed quasar and its ...

A new JWST study has revealed the true origins of a luminous quasar that has been duplicated six times as its light "zig-zags ...