Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. This artist’s ...

Marvel fans wish to find out who Quasar is and whether he’ll appear in MCU’s The Marvels. Is he strong enough to defeat Captain Marvel? Here’s all you need to know. In the comics, Wendell Vaughn ...

Imagine you’re out for a walk on a lovely day, with not a care in the world. The birds are singing, and the sun is shining.

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 ...

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of light, created by torrid gas orbiting a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity.

Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe and are powered by material accreting onto supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. Studies have shown that early-universe quasars ...

A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every galaxy, including the Milky Way. When a black hole is active, it pulls material in as a whirlpool of high-temperature gas and dust. As this cosmic ...