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VIDEO: CosmoView Episode 25: Caught Speeding: Clocking the Fastest-Spinning Brown Dwarfs view more  Credit: Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva, P. Marenfeld, NASA/JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt (IPAC). Music: zero-project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr). Astronomers at Western University have discovered the most rapidly rotating brown dwarfs known. They found three brown dwarfs that each complete a full rotation roughly once every hour. That rat...

PHOENIX – A team led by University of Arizona astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar found to date. Researchers hope the quasar, which is more than 13 billion light-years

Advertisement: Quasars are one of the brightest sources of light in the universe and are the nucleus of an enormous galaxy. At the center of the quasar’s galaxy is a black hole that constantly emits matter. J0313-1806 is not only significant for its distance, but it also contains a black hole so heavy that the discovery is making scientists question their hypotheses of how black holes form. “This particular quasar has a black hole of one and a half billion t...

What a distant quasar and a ‘young’ black hole could reveal about the universe NASA scientists perform a tower extension test on the James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to launch in October. The telescope will orbit 1 million miles above Earth and allow astronomers to look even further into space than the Hubble Telescope, which was launched more than 30 years ago. (Source: NASA) By Danya Gainor | February 15, 2021 at 7:37 AM MST - Updated February 15 at 7:37 AM PHOENIX â�...

Scientists find most distant quasar to date Artist rendering of a quasar. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva. A team of astronomers including a University of Michigan researcher has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth—the most distant quasar discovered to date. The quasar—a luminous object with a supermassive black hole at the center—sheds light on how black holes grow. Dating back to 670 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 5% its cu...

Astronomers have observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth—the most distant quasar discovered to date. Dating back to 670 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 5% its current age, the quasar hosts a supermassive black hole equivalent to the combined mass of 1.6 billion suns. In addition to being the most distant—and by extension, earliest—quasar known, the object is the first of its kind to show evidence of an outflowing wind of super-heated ga...

A team of astronomers including a University of Michigan researcher has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth-the most distant...