Zooming in on the remote quasar P172+18 #shorts
Channel: NASA SPACE CHANNEL
Date: 2021-09-04

#shorts
This video sequence starts from a wide-field view of the region of the sky around P172+18 and closes in on the very distant quasar, a bright object that lies at the centre of a remote galaxy and is powered by a supermassive black hole. The galaxy itself is surrounded by a very large bubble of ionised gas; artist's impressions of both the bubble and the galaxy are seen in the sequence. The final view is an artist’s impression of the quasar and its radio jets.

Zooming in on the remote quasar P172+18 #shorts