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What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

Vsauce · 3 min read

The brightest sustained objects in the universe aren’t stars or even the brief flash of a gamma-ray burst—they’re quasars, powered by black holes...

Absolute MagnitudeQuasarsBlack Holes

Why Quasars are so Awesome | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Quasars are the universe’s most luminous signposts of supermassive black holes feeding—brief, intense bursts that can reshape entire galaxies and...

QuasarsSupermassive Black HolesAccretion Disks

Was the Milky Way a Quasar?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

The Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, may have had a much more recent “active” episode than astronomers assumed—one that could have...

Fermi BubblesSagittarius A*Active Galactic Nuclei

NEW DISCOVERY About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

A distant double-lobed radio galaxy, PBC J2333.9-2343, appears to have “swiveled” its jet toward Earth—turning a side-on radio galaxy into a...

Active Galactic NucleiBlazarsRadio Galaxies

How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Neutrino astronomy is moving from speculation to targeted astrophysics: IceCube has reported a statistically significant excess of high-energy...

Neutrino AstronomyIceCube DetectorActive Galactic Nuclei

How Supernovas Act as Universe’s Largest Particle Accelerators

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Cosmic rays—high-energy particles raining onto Earth—are largely powered by shockwaves from exploding stars, with supernova remnants acting as...

Cosmic RaysSupernova ShocksFermi Acceleration