UK astronomers are part of a European team that has discovered the most distant quasar ever seen. It is the brightest object to be observed in the early universe and is powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. This artist’s impression shows how the distant quasar may have looked (Credit: ESO / M Kornmesser).
EU team with British Researchers discover brightest object in Universe ever
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