{"id":749804,"date":"2026-07-08T04:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:14:17","slug":"arizona-researchers-and-telescope-help-find-oldest-quasar-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749804\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona researchers and telescope help find oldest quasar on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quasars are extremely bright and active centers of galaxies, made of really big black holes consuming gas and dust. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/articles\/aa\/full_html\/2026\/07\/aa58883-26\/aa58883-26.html\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A new study details 31 newly discovered quasars, including the oldest one ever observed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Arizona researchers were involved in the global team.<\/p>\n<p>The quasar was found when the universe was just 670 million years old, about 5% its current age.<\/p>\n<p>Quasars from when the universe was that young are incredibly rare and hard to detect.<\/p>\n<p>Because our current understanding of how black holes and quasars form requires a lot of time, scientists still don\u2019t know how supermassive black holes could have formed when the universe was that young.<\/p>\n<p>The objects were first observed with the Euclid Space Telescope, which is similar to Hubble and JWST, and confirmed with ground-based telescopes, including one in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quasars are extremely bright and active centers of galaxies, made of really big black holes consuming gas and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-749804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}