3C 273, a quasar (super luminous active galactic nucleus), is observable with an 8-inch telescope despite its distance of over 2 billion light-years. Its luminosity is attributed to a supermassive ...
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Quasars are active black holes -- primarily from the early universe. Using a special method where you observe light that has been bent by gravity on its way through the universe, a group of physics ...