Phys.Org April 26, 2026 • 17:30

Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger - Phys.org

By Shreejaya Karantha

Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger - Phys.org

Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence of a close quasar pair housed in a pair of merging galaxies seen when the universe was less than a billion years old, at a redshift of 5.7. The system, de…

Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence of a close quasar pair housed in a pair of merging galaxies seen when the universe was less th… [+4478 chars]

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