Posts tagged quasar
Huge Quasar Cluster is Largest Cosmic Structure
What’s the biggest thing in the universe? That would be a cluster of quasars so large it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light 4 billion years to cross. Read more…
Whoa, now that’s BIG…
Oh Andromeda, stop flashing that quasar bling. Milky Way has got ‘em too!
When we talk of quasars, we think: early universe; angry black holes in the centers of galaxies; gobs of energy; the ancient light of which is used today by astronomers to understand the primordial cosmos and the expansion of space-time. But what if I told you that astronomers have not only discovered a quasar in our modern Universe, but they’ve also discovered it right in our intergalactic back yard?
