A Black Hole-Powered Quasar Is Showing Astronomers That the Universe Is Pretty Gassy

Computer simulations have previously shown astronomers that the universe was, well, pretty gassy, but they're just now getting their first glimpse of the universe's gas, and they didn't even have to hold a match up in front of its butt to do so. While that's mildly disappointing, a black hole-powered quasar lighting it up is still pretty cool.

A Black Hole-Powered Quasar Is Showing Astronomers That the Universe Is Pretty Gassy The universe is made up of a series of tubes a web of filaments left over from the Big Bang that exists as ionized gas, and radiation from a black hole inside a newly discovered gas nebula has given astronomers their first look at this previously invisible web. Hopefully, the whole web thing isn’t literal, and we won’t also discover that galaxies caught in it are just prey for invisible space-spiders.

Astronomers using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii recently discovered a quasar, which is a bright, superheated ...

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