An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Oh sure, there’s the occasional supernova and a bit of unrest as huge gas clouds collide and ...

In a study published in Nature Astronomy, a group of researchers from the University of Warwick has discovered that black ...

A team led by University of Arizona astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar ever found, and they believe it was fully formed 670 million years ago after the big bang. Credit: Illustration ...

Distant quasar J043947.08+163415.7 was discovered using gravitational lensing. It is the brightest object yet discovered in our Universe. An artist impression of the quasar has been created. Credit: ...