Billion Solar Mass Black Hole (IMAGE)

W. M. Keck Observatory

Billion Solar Mass Black Hole

Caption

An artist's impression of the formation of the quasar Pōniuā`ena growing into a billion solar mass black hole 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld

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