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Astronomers discover the most distant cosmic jet yet, bursting from a black hole – CNET
P172+18 is the most distant radio-loud quasar ever found. It could teach us how galaxies form and evolve.
An artistic impression of the quasar P172+18, which contains a black hole 300 times more massive than the sun.
ESO/M. Kornmesser
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