In an astonishing discovery, astronomers have identified an immense water reservoir orbiting a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. This groundbreaking finding offers an unprecedented look ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

While the colors of weird astronomical objects known as quasars might seem elementary, the science behind these colors is rather complicated. A team at Durham University in the UK say they have ...