ESOcast 32: Most Distant Quasar Found
Quasars are extraordinarily bright distant galaxies that are thought to be powered by vast black holes at their centres. Now, a team of European astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, and a host of other telescopes, to find the most distant of these brilliant beacons ever recorded — it is so far away that it took 12.9 billion years for its light to reach us.
In this ESOcast, Dr J explains how astronomers spent five years painstakingly searching for this object, and how its properties can help us understand the early Universe.
Check out more episodes of the ESOcast here.
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ESO
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada
Editing: Herbert Zodet
Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida
Written by: Sarah Roberts and Richard Hook
Narration: Dr. J
Music: Movetwo and John Dyson (from the album Darklight)
Footage and photos: ESO, A. M. Swinbank and S. Zieleniewski, Stéphane Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) and José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org)
Directed by: Herbert Zodet and Richard Hook
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen
Courtesy of European Southern Observatory
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