The supermassive black hole 3C 273 is a wonder. It is the first object identified as a quasar, a black hole that is eating stuff so voraciously the process outshines its own galaxy. It is so bright that even at 2.5 billion light-years away, it can be seen with a small telescope. To observe its details, however, scientists had to... read full story
"We've got a few blobs of different sizes and a mysterious L-shaped filamentary structure. This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole,"