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Scientists find most distant quasar shooting powerful radio jets – Space.com
An artistic visualization of the quasar P172+18. (Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
A newly discovered quasar
from the early universe is the most distant found to date that’s shooting out powerful radio jets.
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently discovered the quasar, called P172+18, which is so far away that it takes about 13 billion years for the light from this quasar to reach Earth, where we observe the object as it was when the universe…
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