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Quasar - Illustration

author: ESO/Novapix

reference: a-gax99-00508

Image Size 300 DPI: 34 * 20 cm

This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.

Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ACTIVE GALAXY - ASTRONOMY - BLACK HOLE - GALAXY - ILLUSTRATION - QUASAR -