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Oodles of 'noodles' found in galaxy Most people--including most astronomers--would consider stars to be the most common components of a galaxy. Now, a group of astronomers has found strange new [...]

'Apparent' gravitational lens questioned Two quasars very close together in the sky, catalogued as 1146+111B,C, may be a double image of a single quasar formed by the largest gravitational lens [...]

Quasar found in galaxy cluster For the first time in two decades of observing quasars, astrophysicists have found a quasar in the middle of a rich cluster of galaxies, a [...]

In recent years expert opinion has been converging on the belief that quasars are related to galaxies. Quasars radiate energy at rates comparable to those of galaxies, but look as [...]

The question of what quasars are has been a controversial topic for the last two decades. Lately a consensus seems to have formed among experts in the field that quasars [...]