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Most Distant Quasar Found

06/30/2011 11:41PM

Most Distant Quasar Found

A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.


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  • wcarter3 [William Carter]
  • 07/07/2011 10:05PM
Thanks for this update Guy. This is exciting -- to look back to the re-ionization period in our universe's history. If we can do this with our current generation of telescopes, think about what we will learn with the new generation of telescopes coming in the next ten years.