Observers love looking at distant objects — and the farther, the better. Well, how about an object that’s more than 2 billion light-years away and visible through an 8-inch telescope? 3C 273 is that ...

The movement known as Light and Space emerged in Southern California in the 1960s when a loosely affiliated group of artists began to investigate the potential of light as both medium and message, ...

PEORIA — Gary Justis’ exhibit “Luminous Objects” explores the classic medium of landscape painting in a thoroughly modern way. Justis builds mechanical devices that project light, color and movement ...

In September 2021, Steve Schulze, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, was poring over astronomical data. One event—an extremely luminous object about 2.2 billion light-years away—caught his ...

It is the greatest disappearing act in the universe. Quasars—luminous beacons powered by ravenous supermassive black holes at the cores of distant galaxies—have been caught vanishing, sometimes fading ...

Astronomers observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The findings may shed light on how the earliest supermassive black holes became so massive despite ...

The world of astronomy mourned the recent passing of Dutch-American astronomer Maarten Schmidt, the first person to measure the distance to a quasar. His groundbreaking work in the 1960’s greatly ...

University of Leicester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Active galaxies are some of the most luminous and impressive objects in the sky. They tend to be massive, distant and emit ...