Unknown radio structure detected around brightest known quasar
Jul 07, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS BRANDON SPECKTOR
stronomers have found two large, mysterious objects blasting out of the brightest black hole in the known universe. Discovered in a 1959 survey of cosmic radio wave sources, the supermassive black hole 3C 273 is a quasar – short for quasi-stellar object because the light emitted by these behemoths is bright enough to be mistaken for starlight. While
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