Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light-speed that stretch out for up to 7.2 million light-years, around 50 times the width of the Milky Way.
These monster objects, known as Giant Radio Quasars, are part of a clutch of 369 radio quasars recently discovered by Indian astronomers in data collected by the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT), an array of 30 parabolic dishes located near Pune, India, as part of the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS). The TGSS covered around 90% of the celestial sphere above Earth, with the telescope's wide-sky coverage and high sensitivity making it the ideal instrument to spot distant gigantic radio-emitting structures like Giant Radio Quasars.
