This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. The most luminous object in the universe ever ...

Astronomers have characterized a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies ...

Observers love looking at distant objects — and the farther, the better. Well, how about an object that’s more than 2 billion light-years away and visible through an 8-inch telescope? 3C 273 is that ...

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 ...

The movement known as Light and Space emerged in Southern California in the 1960s when a loosely affiliated group of artists began to investigate the potential of light as both medium and message, ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than ...

A mysterious glowing object spotted above a military hangar at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) forced officials to halt flights for approximately 30 minutes on Friday evening, triggering a brief ...

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ...