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JWST spots what could be a quasar from the early Universe

The object’s deep red colour suggests it existed when the Universe was less than 700 million years old.
Composite-colour image of the central core of a massive galaxy cluster.

A JWST photograph of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 includes three images of the same red object. Credit: L. J. Furtak et al./Astrophys. J. (CC BY 4.0)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen what is probably a quasar from the early Universe1.

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Nature 620, 249 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02429-4

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  1. Furtak, L. J. et al. Astrophys. J. 952, 142 (2023).

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