Scientists from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have used 140,000 quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was...
A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Rubens Reis from the University of Michigan has directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar...
Using the 10-m Keck I Telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, an international group of astronomers has discovered a distant quasar illuminating...
An international team of scientists led by Dr Patrick Hall of York University in Toronto has discovered a new type of quasars.
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In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org), astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of California...
Astronomers, led by Dr Nicolas Bouche from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily...
By combining multiple telescope observations and advanced modeling, a multinational team of astronomers has discovered an extremely rare triple quasar...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...
A multinational team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire has detected a large group of quasars that may be the largest known structure...
An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has found a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five...
An international team of astronomers used Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at the host galaxy of one of the most luminous...
Cambridge researchers have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe.
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An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars.
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An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a new heating source in cosmological structure formation.
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An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...
