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Astronomers discover oldest, most distant quasar and supermassive black hole 13 billion light years away By Sophie Lewis Smithsonian artifacts: The first black hole photograph
Lurking in a distant region of space, more than 13 billion light years away, is a luminous quasar fueled by a supermassive black hole 1.6 billion times more massive than the sun. Astronomers recently spotted the galactic beast, marking the oldest one of its kind.
The ancient quasar, defined as a bright, massive, remote active galactic nucleus emitting huge amounts of energy, has been dubbed J0313-1806 by an international team, led by researchers at the University of Arizona. It dates back to an astounding 670 million years after the Big Bang when the infant universe was just 5% of its current age.