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I really wish I could write you a clever and scientific essay about quasars but, to be honest, I can't. Despite my never-ending love for space and everything connected with it I just fail miserably in describing things accurately.
So all I can tell you is that the image above shows an artistic impression of what a quasar could look like. In this case it's the quasar known as SDSS J1106+1939 which has been located in the constellation of Leo.
It's about eleven billion light-years away from Earth and probably shines two trillion times brighter than our Sun, assuming that it still exists in our "today". Its outflow spreads about one thousand light-years out into the galaxy surrounding it. The engine of a quasar is a supermassive black hole.
Image found on eso.org
