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 ...
Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...
It started with a hunch. Or more accurately, a glow. Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were combing through the deep sky, same as they’ve done dozens of times, when something odd lit ...