Distant Quasars and Earth's Quasi-Moon

Walkabout the Galaxy by Joshua Colwell

Jul 9, 202643:20Science & Medicine

Quasars, the energetic engines driven by the voracious appetite of supermassive black holes, have been observed in the very early universe, upending ideas about how long it took to form these behemoths in the first place...

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