When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. That means studying 3C 273 has been like staring into the headlights of an oncoming car for ...

A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Research, led by Gabriela Canalizo of the University of California, Riverside, points to a spectacular collision of galaxies RIVERSIDE, Calif. – New images taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – ...

A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There's a linear orange-white ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a strikingly detailed view of one of the universe’s most iconic and powerful objects — the quasar 3C 273. This new glimpse into the core of the quasar, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the closest look yet at the host galaxy of a quasar. Credit: NASA / ESA / Bin Ren / Joseph DePasquale The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to capture a rare, close-up view of a quasar’s core. Quasars are some ...

Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became the subject of astronomers' interest after it was discovered to have a newborn jet blasting from the disk around its supermassive black hole in 2020, using the Karl G ...

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Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study distant quasars – the brightest objects in the universe – have captured a rare image that raises new questions about how they form. Quasars can ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to ...