quasars

What Hanny’s Voorwerp Reveals About Quasar Deaths

[/caption]Hanny's Voorwerp is a popular topic of conversation due to its novel discovery by Hanny Van Arkel perusing images from…

14 years ago

First Quasar Gravitational Lens Discovered (w/video)

[/caption] Gravitation lensing - a phenomenon that falls out of Einstein's theory of general relativity - has been observed numerous…

14 years ago

Caught in the Act! Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar

[/caption] Excellent teamwork by astronomers working in two different wavebands – x-ray and optical - has led to the discovery…

15 years ago

Fermi Spies Energetic Blazar Flare

[/caption] The blazar 3C 454.3, a bright source of gamma rays from a galaxy 7 billion light-years away just got…

15 years ago

Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy

The birth of galaxies is quite a complicated affair, and little is known about whether the supermassive black holes at…

15 years ago

35 Radio Observatories Link to Break Record

Ever wondered what the largest telescope on the Earth is? Well, this coming Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the…

15 years ago