A distant quasar may be circling all the galaxies around it

An image of a ring of fire in outer space with a black orb in the center, shown on a diagonal from the side.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The quasar is so distant that its light took 13.0 billion years to reach us, so we see it when … Read more

The nearest middle-aged black hole could be a crowd of lightweights

A bright concentration of stars on a dark sky.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The study doesn’t completely rule out an intermediate-mass black hole, but if one is there, it’s much smaller than … Read more