The most distant quasar

This image of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, was created from images taken from surveys made by both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. The quasar appears as a faint red dot close to the centre. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang.

Credit:

ESO/UKIDSS/SDSS

Over de afbeelding

Id:eso1122b
Type:Observatie
Publicatiedatum:29 juni 2011 19:00
Gerelateerde berichten:eso1122
Grootte:1298 x 1298 px

Over het object

Naam:ULAS J1120+0641
Type:Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Afstand:z=7.1 (roodverschuiving)
Categorie:Quasars and Black Holes

Image Formats

Grote JPEG
348,8 KB

Kleuren & filters

BandTelescoop
Infrarood
i
Liverpool Telescope
Infrarood
z
Isaac Newton Telescope
Infrarood
(Y+J)
UKIRT