Quasar (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Quasar

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This is an artist's concept of a quasar, or feeding black hole, similar to APM 08279+5255, where a team of astronomers including CU-Boulder discovered huge amounts of water vapor.

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NASA/ESA

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