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Universe’s oldest known quasar discovered 13 billion light-years away – Livescience.com
Astronomers have found the farthest known source of radio emissions in the universe: a galaxy-swallowing supermassive black hole.
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and ancient single source of radio emissions in the known universe. That source is one of the universe’s most powerful particle accelerators: a quasar 13 billion light-years from Earth spewing jets of particles at nearly the speed of light.
Quasars
are some of the oldest, most distant, most massive and brightest objects in the universe. They make up the cores of galaxies where a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole gorges on all the matter that’s…
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