Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar yet found, a cosmic monster more than 13 billion light-years from the earth powered by a supermassive black hole more than 1.6 billion times more massive than the Sun and more than 1,000 times brighter than our entire Milky Way...See more

Quasar Discovery Sets New Distance Record

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with other telescopes, have discovered the most distant quasar yet found. The bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy, is seen as it was only 670 million years after the Big Bang, and...

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Jan 13 2021 · 2:07 PM

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