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  2. Quasar - Wikipedia

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    The first true quadruple quasar system was discovered in 2015 at a redshift z = 2.0412 and has an overall physical scale of about 200 kpc (roughly 650,000 light-years). [74] A multiple-image quasar is a quasar whose light undergoes gravitational lensing, resulting in double, triple

  3. TON 618 - Wikipedia

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    As a quasar, TON 618 is believed to be the active galactic nucleus at the center of a galaxy, the engine of which is a supermassive black hole feeding on intensely hot gas and matter in an accretion disc. Given its observed redshift of 2.219, the light travel time of TON 618 is estimated to be approximately 10.8 billion years.

  4. QSO J0529-4351 - Wikipedia

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    The object itself was detected in ESO images dating back to 1980, but its identification as a quasar occurred only several decades later. [2]An automated analysis of 2022 data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite did not confirm J0529-4351 as too bright to be a quasar, and suggested it was a 16th magnitude star with a 99.98% probability.

  5. List of quasars - Wikipedia

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    RX J1131-1231 is the name of the complex, quasar, host galaxy and lensing galaxy, together. The quasar's host galaxy is also lensed into a Chwolson ring about the lensing galaxy. The four images of the quasar are embedded in the ring image. Cloverleaf: 4 [3] Brightest known high-redshift source of CO emission [4] QSO B1359+154: 6

  6. UHZ1 - Wikipedia

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    The data collected from UHZ1 and its quasar are in agreement with prior theoretical predictions by astronomers for a unique class of transient, high-redshift objects known as Overmassive (or Outsize) Black Hole Galaxies (OBGs, or O.B.G.s). OBGs are heavy initial black hole seeds that likely formed from the direct collapse of gas clouds. Due to ...

  7. PKS 0438-436 - Wikipedia

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    PKS 0438-436, also known as PKS J0440-4333, is a quasar located in constellation Caelum.With a high redshift of 2.86, [1] the object is located 11.2 billion light-years from Earth [2] and is classified as a blazar due to its flat-spectrum radio source, [3] (in terms of the flux density as (F v ~ V-a) with α < 0.5 and its optical polarization.

  8. OQ 172 - Wikipedia

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    OQ 172 (OHIO Q 172) is a quasar [1] located in the constellation of Boötes. It has a redshift of (z) 3.544, [2] making it one of the most distant quasars at the time of its discovery by astronomers in 1973. [3] This object was the record holder for almost a decade, before being surpassed by PKS 2000-330 in 1982 located at the redshift of (z) 3 ...

  9. QSO J0313−1806 - Wikipedia

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    QSO J0313−1806 [2] was the most distant, and hence also the oldest known quasar at z = 7.64, at the time of its discovery. [1] In January 2021, it was identified as the most redshifted (highest z) known quasar, with the oldest known supermassive black hole (SMBH) at (1.6 ± 0.4) × 10 9 solar masses.