Webb image archive
Quasar (Illustration)
Quasars — accreting supermassive black holes — are paradoxically some of the brightest objects in the universe. Astronomers widely consider the energy from quasars to be the m...
- Date
- Dec 13, 2023
- Observatory
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Credit
- NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI
- Archive ID
- 4722
Quasars — accreting supermassive black holes — are paradoxically some of the brightest objects in the universe. Astronomers widely consider the energy from quasars to be the main driver in limiting the growth of massive galaxies. Scientists plan to use Webb to study the impact of three carefully selected quasars on their host galaxies in a program called Q3D.
Credits
Image
NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)