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.

Crediti:

ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Identificazione:eso1122a
Tipo:Illustrazione
Data di rilascio:Mercoledì 29 Giugno 2011 19:00
Notizie relative:eso1122
Grandezza:4112 x 2438 px

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Nome:ULAS J1120+0641
Tipo:Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Distanza:z=7.1 (spostamento del rosso)
Categoria:Illustrations
Quasars and Black Holes

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