An artist’s rendering of the most distant quasar
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.
Credit:ESO/M. Kornmesser
About the Image
| Id: | eso1122a |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 29 June 2011, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1122 |
| Size: | 4112 x 2438 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ULAS J1120+0641 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar |
| Distance: | z=7.1 (redshift) |
| Category: | Illustrations Quasars and Black Holes |
