Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes.

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New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that scientists are just beginning to explain. Nearly 35 years after its ...

This heats it and causes it to glow brightly. An illustration of a galaxy with a quasar, a bright and distant active supermassive black hole, at its heart Additionally, material that isn't fed to ...

A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as ...

This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole." The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" features in its vicinity. Quasars are the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Hubble Space Telescope has stared deeper into a quasar than ever before, discovering "weird" ...

A jet emerging from the quasar's supermassive black hole seems to be speeding up the farther it travels from the source. Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Olmsted illustration In addition to seeing ...

Quasars, a shortening of the term "quasi-stellar objects," are blindingly bright galaxy cores in the early universe. Though these extremely distant objects look like stars in the sky, they're the ...