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.

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ESO/M. Kornmesser

À propos de l'image

Identification:eso1122a
Type:Dessin
Date de publication:29 juin 2011 19:00
Communiqués de presse en rapport:eso1122
Taille:4112 x 2438 px

À propos de l'objet

Nom:ULAS J1120+0641
Type:Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Distance:z=7.1 (redshift)
Catégorie:Illustrations
Quasars and Black Holes

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