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SCIENCEJul 9 · 11:12 UTCSCIENCE DAILY

These ancient quasars shouldn't exist so soon after the Big Bang

Astronomers discovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest detected, from a time when the universe was approximately 670 million years old. These quasars, powered by supermassive black holes, challenge existing theories about the rapid formation of such massive black holes after the Big Bang.

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