Astronomers have found the most luminous object in the known universe, hiding in plain sight. Quasars are the brightest objects in the cosmos. So bright, in fact, that when they were first spotted in ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

The Gemini Observatory has released the first color image of what astronomers are calling the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object is what is known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

How many of us have ever attempted to imagine how vast the universe is? From our point of view, the universe is a large and endless spread with tiny blinking objects. However, like everything around ...

The study is published in the latest issue of The American Journal of Physics ("All objects and some questions"). Masses, sizes, and relative densities of objects in our Universe. (© The American ...