Discovered Hungry Quasar Lying At 13 Billion Light-Years Away!
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An international group of astronomers used powerful telescopes to observe quasars, and detected the most ancient quasar in the Universe!
And we know what this means: the older an object is, the further away it is from us.
The universe, at that time, was no more than 700.000 years old.
Astronomers are not so good in giving names to quasars, and it is called J0313-1806.
It is the most distant quasar to date.
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J0313-1806 it's about 1.6 billion times more massive than our Sun, and about 1000 times brighter than our entire galaxy.
And it is very greedy: it is swallowing an equivalent of 25 solar masses per year.
But what are quasars?
Why are they so important?
And how did we detect J0313-1806? How can we reach those enormous distances?
Follow me on this video to find out!
A new record for cosmic distances had been registered by a quasar.
His name is J0313-1806, but from now on we will call it “Mr Q” because we don't like his name very much.
Quasars - a shortening of "quasi-stellar radio sources" - are the incredibly bright result of an active galactic nucleus, with a supermassive black hole accreting material at such a rate that the heat generated blazes across the Universe.
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