APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Redshift and blueshift are used by astronomers to work out how far an object is from Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

When astronomers stare into the deep universe or at the spectra of a distant star subtly hiding an exoplanet, they need to account for its movement. That relies on two phenomena — redshift and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The light you see, when you look out at the stars and galaxies that ...

Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it's expanding, it's full of material, and through it all, there's one photon ⁠— or quantum of light ⁠— that we keep track of and forbid from ...

A Doppler shift is defined as a change of frequency of light or sound when an object is moving toward or away from an observer. Edwin Hubble observed in 1929 that galaxies appear on average to be ...

It’s been almost exactly two years since we last posted a dedicated look at rendering performance in Maxon’s Redshift, so let’s get up to speed, shall we? In the grand scheme of things, two years ...

BRD Motorcycles of San Francisco, CA is very excited to announce that we will finally begin taking deposits on the 2013 RedShift electric motorcycle. Though we announced the bikes in August, we did ...