File:Seed Black Hole, 100 Million Years after the Big Bang (noirlab2015b).jpg

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An artist’s impression of the formation of quasar Pōniuāʻena, starting with a seed black hole, 100 million years after the Big Bang.

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English: An artist’s impression of the formation of quasar Pōniuāʻena, starting with a seed black hole, 100 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers discovered this, the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF’s NOIRLab. It is the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name.
Date 25 June 2020 (upload date)
Source Seed Black Hole, 100 Million Years after the Big Bang
Author International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld
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