A quasar is a galactic center that glows brightly ... accelerate these particles to nearly the speed of light. Then, this superheated gas or plasma erupts as two astrophysical jets that can ...

Astronomers found a water reservoir 140 trillion times Earth’s oceans, swirling around a quasar 12 billion light-years away — the largest, most distant water ever seen. The quasar APM 08279 ...