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

Over de afbeelding

Id:eso1122a
Type:Ontwerp
Publicatiedatum:29 juni 2011 19:00
Gerelateerde berichten:eso1122
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Over het object

Naam:ULAS J1120+0641
Type:Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Afstand:z=7.1 (roodverschuiving)
Categorie:Illustrations
Quasars and Black Holes

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