Imagine you’re looking at your friend “Mike” and see two of him standing there. One is your friend now, and the other is Mike as he appeared more than a year earlier. Could something like this really ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterized a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind but also the most ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance ...

A cosmic monster shows up in our backyard and suddenly physics starts acting like it drank five espressos. Let’s explore how a quasar could bend reality, warp time, and totally ruin your weekend plans ...

The curious minds at What If imagine a quasar entering our solar system, exploring radiation, gravitational effects, and planetary destruction. Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of ...