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MIT: Astronomers Detect Ancient Lonely Quasars With Murky Origins
October 18, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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The quasars appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago.

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By Jennifer Chu, MIT News

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center. As the black hole draws in surrounding gas . . .

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