Discover the first quasar

At the American Astronomical Society conference in Seattle, astronomers said they had just discovered the first quasar. Initially, the researchers thought that the trio was just an illusion. However, after using telescopes at the WM Keck observatory in Hawaii, they discovered that the trio consisted of three black holes.

Quasars are thousands of times brighter than a galaxy (Photo: BBC)

The quasar is like a star, far away from Earth, emitting a huge amount of energy that scientists think they come from ' super giant ' black holes in the center of the galaxy.

Each quasar produces a large amount of electromagnetic energy, including visible light and radio waves. They are generated by gases that fall into a black hole in the center of a galaxy. This happens when galaxies collide and merge.

A single quasar could be thousands of times brighter than a galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars.

Professor George Djorgovski, from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and colleagues, studied and named this quasar of LBQS 1429-008. It was discovered by a group of other astronomers in 1989. At the time, they assumed it had only two quasars.

"Quasars are extremely rare objects, and the discovery of these three quasars has never happened," said Professor George Djorgovski.

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