Scientists detect ultra-rare 'transitioning red quasar' from the dawn of the universe - Livescience.com

Part galaxy and part quasar, the dusty red object formed just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have discovered a dusty, red object 13 billion light-years from Earth that may be the earliest known ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The ancient object shows characteristics that … [+3850 chars]

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