3C 273, a quasar (super luminous active galactic nucleus), is observable with an 8-inch telescope despite its distance of over 2 billion light-years. Its luminosity is attributed to a supermassive ...

The exceptional quasar J0529−4351. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02195-x A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes ...

Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too bright for their age. In four patches of sky, covering more than 500 square ...

Dark stars are theoretical, extremely luminous objects from the early universe, posited to be powered not by nuclear fusion but by the annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a ...

(Nanowerk News) A recent discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the early universe upend conventional thinking about the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A team of scientists from Isro will soon arrive in Leh to further corroborate that the mysterious luminous objects seen on the horizon over a lake in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir are actually ...

PEORIA — Gary Justis’ exhibit “Luminous Objects” explores the classic medium of landscape painting in a thoroughly modern way. Justis builds mechanical devices that project light, color and movement ...