Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space. There are several types including dark nebulae which appear black, reflection nebulae which glow blue from reflected starlight, and emission nebulae which glow in specific colors due to ionized gas. Quasars are extremely bright active galactic nuclei containing supermassive black holes. The first quasar, 3C 273, was discovered in the 1960s and found to be billions of light years away. Blazars are a type of quasar that emit most of their energy as gamma rays and X-rays. Quasars can be thousands of times brighter than entire galaxies and contain disks of superhot gas and jets of matter near supermassive black holes.