Billion Solar Mass Black Hole
An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. Astronomers discovered this, the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF’s NOIRLab. It is the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2015c |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | June 25, 2020, 6 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2015 |
Size: | 9000 x 4500 px |
About the Object
Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
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