Astronomers just discovered some of the most primordial quasars in the universe ^28.1%

Scientific American - By Adam Kovac - 7/7/2026, 12:00 PM

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At the heart of many galaxies lie supermassive blackholes. These engines power quasars—active galactic nuclei that emit some of the brightest light astronomers can possibly see in the sky. How these extreme objects formed in the earliest years of the universe—when the cosmos was less than a billion years old—has long been something of a... more