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Scientists from the National Astronomical Radio Observatory of the United States discovered the most brilliant object of the primitive universe – a quasar that sits 13 billion light years away of the Earth
Science Alert.
Quasars are characterized by plasma jets coming out of their center. They are clearly visible in the radio frequency spectrum. This signal came from the quasar identified by the name PSO J352.4034-15.3373 (P352-15 for brevity), which was detected by the Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope. It has, like most quasars, two such plasma jets
The light of the quasars can be used to study the intergalactic medium. This is due to the fact that hydrogen changes the spectrum of light in its long journey to Earth.
"We see the object P352-15, appeared when the universe was less than a billion years ago, at the end of the period, When the first stars and the first galaxies re- will ionize the neutral hydrogen atoms entering the intergalactic space, further observations could allow us to use this quasar as a basis for measuring the amount of neutral hydrogen at this time " , says astrophysicist Chris Carilli of the National Astronomical Radio Observatory. Tany's big shots between P352-15 and the Earth still does not determine the mass and size of the associated galaxy, but now, as scientists say, P352-15 is the brightest source of radio waves in the young universe, whose power is tens of times higher than any other object known to astronomers.
Earlier HB reported that US scientists had fixed a black hole at a distance of 13 billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers have estimated that the mass of this hole is 800 million times larger than the mass of the Sun. He trained at the dawn of the Universe – about 690 million years after the Big Bang.
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