9 March 2021, 1:20 pm EST By
Presently, scientists cannot easily depend on a simple telescope for distant viewing of celestial bodies and interplanetary components. In the case of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), their very own Very Large Telescope has helped them discover the most remote quasars and black holes in space. The said facility is home to four individual telescopes with an 8.2 m primary mirror.
ESO s Capability to View Distant Bodies From the Earth
(Photo : Screenshot from YouTube/Astrum)
Very Large Telescope, one of the most advanced telescopes in the world.
According to a report by Independent, the team made use of a wide range of space-viewing tools, which is primarily initiated through the Very Large Telescope, which ESO operates. Besides the perfect sighting of the quasar to aid the study of the scientists, it also let them see the rapid-growing mass of the black hole, which is too huge to describe.
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IMAGE: This artist s impression shows how the distant quasar P172+18 and its radio jets may have looked. To date (early 2021), this is the most distant quasar with radio jets ever. view more
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
With the help of the European Southern Observatory s Very Large Telescope (ESO s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail the most distant source of radio emission known to date. The source is a radio-loud quasar a bright object with powerful jets emitting at radio wavelengths that is so far away its light has taken 13 billion years to reach us. The discovery could provide important clues to help astronomers understand the early Universe.
Astronomers found the distant radio source with the Magellan Telescope in Chile
They then used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to study confirm it as a quasar
Named P172+18 the team say it provides information on the early universe
This is the most distant quasar ever discovered by astronomers dating to a point when the universe was just 780 million years old, study authors explained