Brightest Quasar (IMAGE)

Australian National University

Brightest Quasar

Caption

This is the brightest quasar in the early universe, hiding a black hole of 12 billion solar masses appears to us as a tiny red dot

Credit

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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