Seed Black Hole, 100 Million Years after the Big Bang (IMAGE)

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Seed Black Hole, 100 Million Years after the Big Bang

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An artist's impression of the formation of quasar P?niuā?ena, starting with a seed black hole, 100 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers discovered this, the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF's NOIRLab. It is the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name.

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

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