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University of Michigan: Astronomers Discover Most Distant Quasar
January 13, 2021
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Jan. 13 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:

A team of astronomers including a University of Michigan researcher has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth--the most distant quasar discovered to date.

The quasar--a luminous object with a supermassive black hole at the center--sheds light on how black holes grow. Dating back to 670 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was on . . .

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