Animation of the most distant quasar. (credit ESO) Quasars are amongst the most luminous objects in the universe, with a brightness far higher than normal, throwing out vast amounts of light energy over most of the electromagnetic spectrum. Visible light, … Read more →
Galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster), is a pretty and colourful picture you might think, but this is a scene of such scale and galactic violence that it stretches the imagination. Virtually every single smudge or faintest point of … Read more →
Animation of hidden massive black hole in a young galaxy Supermassive black holes, the unimaginable gravitational power that lurks at the heart of every galaxy in the universe have always posed a question. What came first, the Supermassive black hole … Read more →
At the heart of every galaxy lies a monster, a colossal gravity well that sports a mass hundreds of millions, or even many billions of times the mass of our Sun. These monsters are the supermassive black holes that … Read more →