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Joanna Thompson

Scientists spot 'L-shaped structures' and 'weird things' near monster black hole in epic new Hubble telescope images

A diagram showing a quasar.

Nearly 35 years after its launch, the Hubble Space Telescope is still revealing new things about the cosmos.

In a newly released series of images, scientists used Hubble to probe a quasar 2.5 billion light-years away. The results deepen our understanding of how these mysterious objects develop — but also reveal "weird things" in the quasar's vicinity that researchers cannot fully explain, the team wrote in a NASA statement.

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