Quasar Flicker (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Quasar Flicker

Caption

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have detected a quasar flickering from the very early universe. This artist’s concept illustrates a quasar accretion disk. 

 

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech

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