Scientists Discover Brightest, Oldest Quasar

A team of European astronomers, glimpsing back in time to when the universe was just a youngster, says it has detected the most distant and earliest quasar yet. Light from this brilliant, starlike object took nearly 13 billion years to reach Earth, meaning the quasar existed when the universe was…

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Scientists Discover Brightest, Oldest Quasar

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