07 April 2021
Astronomers find a rare pair of double quasars in the early Universe
... on the discovery team. “This method unambiguously rejected interlopers due to chance superpositions such as from unassociated star-quasar systems.” While the team believe that this very uncommon discovery is robust, there is a small possibility that...
14 March 2018
Researchers rethink quasar connection after new find
...Indeed to date only around 20 were previously known about. Quasars on the other hand consist of a supermassive black hole ... apparently symbiotic relationship was a boon for researchers as quasars swiftly became the default object in which to help ...
12 September 2016
New study doubles the number of known quasars
... as gravity condensed matter further, the first sources of illumination were eventually formed, which might have included quasars. However gaps in our knowledge of this early era still remain and thanks to discoveries such as this, a greater...
22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
... holes, which need DCBHs, which need massive stars to form, but massive stars destroy the chance of quasars evolving by starving it of material. Now, a new computer simulation created by scientists at the Theoretical Design Division at Los Alamos...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
... a ‘standard ruler’ for length scale in cosmology. For this, quasars powered by supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies were used... the positions and redshifts of more than 147,000 quasars, distributed over 2044 square degrees of the sky, ...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... easier to spot in the Universe’s infant days. “Using quasars as standard candles has great potential, since we can observe...arose. “In the earlier phases that we can only probe with quasars, we find a discrepancy between the observed evolution of the ...
