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It is situated near a supermassive black hole that weighs about 20 billion times more than our Sun. The quasar, APM 08279+5255, emits an extraordinary amount of energy—equivalent to that ...

Astronomers know that if they spot an incredibly luminous quasar, it means a rapidly growing supermassive black hole also is present, and J0529-4351 is the most impressive yet on both counts ...

Smithsonian artifacts: The first black hole photograph Lurking in a distant region of space, more than 13 billion light years away, is a luminous "quasar" fueled by a supermassive black hole 1.6 ...

This quasar, designated J1007+2115, is so distant that it is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang — when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just around 5% of its current age.

This particular quasar, called J1342+0928, is one of the most distant ever spotted at nearly 30 billion light years away. It formed less than 700 million years after the big bang.

The black hole powering the quasar, the astronomers find, is 1.4 billion times as massive as the sun, in line with previous estimates. What’s new is the detection of the host galaxy, whose stars ...

“In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth — and we are seeing it in the first billion years of the universe,” ...