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Quasar emits radio waves from the ends of the Universe – Somag News
When P172 + 18 launched its light towards Earth, the Universe was only 780 million years old; located 13 billion light years away,
When P172 + 18 launched its light towards Earth, the Universe was only 780 million years old; located 13 billion light years away, it is the most distant radio jet emitter quasar ever discovered, thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).
A quasi-stellar radio source is actually a supermassive black hole, with billions of solar masses. The gas that surrounds it (the so-called accretion disk) is, due to the interaction with the immense gravity of the singularity, accelerated…
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