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
Most distant cosmic jet discovered 13 billion light-years away
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 found and it was studied with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. It is so distant that light from it has travelled for about 13 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was only about 780 million years old.
It has taken 13 billion years for the light from the powerful jets of a distant object to reach us.
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