Quasars are very bright, distant galaxies that are thought to be powered by super-massive black holes at their centers.
NOTTINGHAM, England, June 29 (UPI) -- Astronomers have spotted the most distant quasar located to date, a finding a British researcher says could offer information on the early life of the universe.
University of Nottingham astronomer Simon Dye says the brilliant and rare beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the sun, is the brightest object yet found from a time when the universe was less than 800 million years old, or just a fraction of its current age.
The object is about 100 million years younger than the previously known most distant quasar and its signal reaching Earth corresponds to looking back in time to a universe that was 5 percent of its current age, a university release said Wednesday.
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