Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted the earliest powerful "galaxy-size" wind blowing from a feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar. The powerful wind is ...

Caption The close-up view on the left is the deepest look yet into the plasma jet of the quasar 3C 273. The image in the center shows the extended structure of the jet. The image on the right is a ...

This compressed the plasma into a straight, narrow column not unlike a quasar's relativistic jet. "When we did the experiment ...

Astronomers have identified the brightest object ever observed in the universe, a quasar named J0529-4351. This quasar is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, setting a new record for ...

It shows the jet streaming away to the lower-right ... sensed from unusual star merger 3C 279 is what astronomers term a quasar - the extremely bright core of a very distant galaxy.