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 ...

"We've got a few blobs of different sizes and a mysterious L-shaped filamentary structure. This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that scientists are just beginning to explain. When you purchase through links on ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the superbright centers of active galaxies, and they're powered ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State University Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of ...