Astronomers Discover the Brightest Quasar to Date in the Early Universe

Jan 17, 2019 03:00


Researchers have discovered the brightest quasar yet known, detected from the period when the universe’s star-making hydrogen gas became ionized, known as “reionization.”

The international research team found the quasar’s exceptional brightness to be caused by gravitational lensing, a phenomenon by which the gravity of objects closer to Earth acts ( Read more... )

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bryanledmyplace February 18 2019, 18:12:17 UTC
wow

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