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English: "An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar yet found — a cosmic monster more than 13 billion light-years from Earth powered by a supermassive black hole more than 1.6 billion times more massive than the Sun and more than 1,000 times brighter than our entire Milky Way Galaxy."
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Source https://public.nrao.edu/news/quasar-new-distance-record/
Author NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
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