Browsing: Quasar
The quasar, called RX J1131-1231, lies about 6 billion light-years away in the constellation Crater. This Webb image shows the galaxy RX J1131-1231 distorted by gravitational…
Astronomers have discovered a pair of merging quasars observed just 900 million years after the Big Bang. Not only is this the most distant pair of…
Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NSF’s Carl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to locate H1821+643, the closest quasar hosted by a galaxy cluster,…
The black hole in the newly discovered quasar SMSS J052915.80-435152.0 (J0529-4351) accretes about 1 solar mass per day on top of its existing mass of 17…