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Enter NRAO 530, a bright quasar located roughly 7.5 billion light-years away. According to a global team of scientists, it is the most distant object that the Event Horizon has imaged thus far.
The distant, jet-shooting quasar is powered by a supermassive black hole that's about 300 million times more massive than our sun and is growing quickly, pulling in and swallowing surrounding ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...
Its host galaxy is a quasar called J1601+3102, and we're seeing it as it was less than 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. ... Giant Jets Bigger Than The Milky Way Seen Shooting From Black Hole.
The quasar formed when the universe was about 1.2 billion years old. LOS ANGELES - Telescopes worldwide have spotted a monster radio jet shooting out from a quasar that dates back to the first ...
This spaceborne observatory spotted X-rays from the quasar shooting 160,000 light years from the center of the quasar — a distance 60 % longer than the Milky Way is wide.
Yet, that;s not what's happening to H1821+643, according to Helen Russell of the University of Nottingham, who led the Chandra X-ray observations of H1821+643.
“We discovered a quasar—likely triggered by the merging of two galaxies—that is actively transforming the gas structure in its companion galaxy,” Pasquier Noterdaeme, a CNRS researcher at ...
The first quasar ever identified, 3C 273, sits 2.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is located at the heart of a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo.