What Are These Weird Structures Hubble Spotted Near a Monster Black Hole?

Legendary Active Galaxy Contains a Monster Black Hole Amateur astronomers can observe an extraordinary celestial object known as 3C 273, the most distant target visible through a standard backyard telescope. Shining with the light of trillions of suns, 3C 273 is located over two billion light-years away. Today, we recognize it as the brilliant core [...]