While quasars are pretty common nowadays, the newest one, reported in the latest issue of Nature, is still a big deal. It's by far the most distant quasar ever discovered, so far away that its light has been en route to Earthly telescopes for 12.9 billion years. That means this remarkable object, with the unremarkable name ULASJ1120+0641, is sending us light from a mere 770 million years after the Big Bang itself.
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