CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back ...
Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...
From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.
The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely ...
Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...
"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...
The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...
The quasar that powers this jet formed within the first 1.2 billion years of the universe's existence, when it was only 9% of ...