Quasar
One of the most distant known quasars, seen as it was less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
| Type | Quasar |
|---|---|
| Distance from Earth | 13,000,000,000 ly |
| Mass | 3.98 × 10^39 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 20.3 |
| Redshift | 7.085 |
| Hemisphere | Northern |
| Discovered | 2011 |
Its mass is 2,001,005,530 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from ULAS J1120+0641 tonight left it around 12,990,000,000 years ago.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 7.085, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since 2011.
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