1. Quasars
By Ava Pickel

2. Cool Facts About Quasars
More energy than 100 normal galaxies combined
Can be one trillion times brighter than the Sun
Until 1963 humans thought quasars were galaxies
800 million light years away
12 billion light years away from earth
Baby galaxies that give off a lot of light are probably quasars

3. How Far Away Is The Farthest Quasar?
Powered by black hole
Mass 2 billion times the mass of the sun
Brightest object detected in the universe
Named ULAS J
Seen 770million years after the big bang
12.9 billion years for light to reach us

4. How A Quasar Is Made?
Huge amounts of energy from a black hole

5. How Far Away is the Nearest Quasar?
600 million light years away
Center of it 150 million times the mass of the sun
The companion weighs in at 4 million solar masses
Dynamic duo (quasar) orbits every 1.2 years

6. How Much Have Scientist Discovered About Quasars?
Most distant thing found by humans
Quasar is short for quasi- stellar-radio source
Quasars are the most distant object detected in the universe
Quasars have redshifts between and 7.085

7. How Many Quasars Have We Found?
More than 200,000 quasars
12 billion years old
Billions of light years away

8. How Big Is The Biggest Quasar?
4 billion light years away
Group of young active quasars
4 billion light years across