The most distant quasar

This image of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, was created from images taken from surveys made by both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. The quasar appears as a faint red dot close to the centre. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang.

Kredit:

ESO/UKIDSS/SDSS

O snímku

Id:eso1122b
Typ:Pozorování
Datum zveřejnění:29. června 2011 19:00
Související články:eso1122
Velikost:1298 x 1298 px

O objektu

Jméno:ULAS J1120+0641
Typ:Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Vzdálenost:z=7.1 (rudý posuv)
Kategorie:Quasars and Black Holes

Image Formats

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Barvy & filtry

PásmoDalekohled
Infračervený
i
Liverpool Telescope
Infračervený
z
Isaac Newton Telescope
Infračervený
(Y+J)
UKIRT