Sunday, September 28, 2008

Chandra's first image of a quasar


photo:PKS 0637-752 is so distant that we see it as it was 6 billion years ago. It is a luminous quasar that radiates with the power of 10 trillion suns from a region smaller than our solar system. The source of this prodigious energy is believed to be a supermassive black hole.(X-ray image)

Date:August 26, 1999

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