2022 February 22 - Illustration: An Early Quasar
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2022-02-22

In today's image, we see an artist's conception of what a very early quasar might have been like. The material is spiraling in to a supermassive black hole and forms an accretion disk. Jets of material are expelled outward perpendicular to the accretion disk.

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