Universe's most distant quasar found, powered by massive black hole
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
A team of European astronomers has used European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.