New type of black-hole quasar discovered

Nov 08, 2013 by Barbara K. Kennedy

Illustration of another theory, showing the gas of a quasar rotating around a black hole. Credit: York University

Phys.org) —"Like our Milky Way, every known large galaxy has at its center a supermassive black hole, some of which are surrounded by a super-bright disk of hot gas called a quasar—but now a research team that includes Penn State astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of quasars in distant galaxies that even the most current theories had not predicted."