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MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar: « When the universe was just 850 million years old, this voracious black hole was already surprisingly mature, a new study finds. »


Scientists detected a quasar flickering from the very early universe, a time known as the “cosmic dawn,” just 850 million years after the Big Bang. This is the earliest flickering quasar detected to date.

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