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Hubble’s closest look at a quasar reveals … weirdness
- The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the closest look yet at a quasar, one of the closest at 2.5 billion light-years from Earth, and the images reveal “weird” details such as blobs and filaments, particularly a giant L-shape filament.
- Quasars are extremely bright and powered by supermassive black holes who consume material in the region at galactic centers. The region surrounding quasars is full of significant activity.
- Hubble Space Telescope’s images with its STIS instrument as a coronagraph blocked the main glare coming from the quasar and helped observe details up to eight times closer to the central black hole than before allowing the experts to see details in a lot of detail.
- The new images of the Quasar also provided a better look at a 300,000 light-year-long extragalactic jet of material coming from the quasar which will allow taking an observational step towards a more complete understanding of quasar host morphology.
- For astronomers 3C 273 enabled a new gateway to better understanding quasars and the detection of more quasars in the Early Universe where more collisions occurred between galaxies.
- The Hubble Space Telescope is known for its mission to observe distant planets, galaxies and clusters.
- The future is expected to bring more clues regarding the quasar in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope.
- There have been more quasars in the lifetime of the universe earlier, about 3 billion years ago, with some quasars seen merging together as early as 900 million years after the Big Bang.
- The region surrounding quasars is full of significant activity and offers researchers images with fine spatial structures and jet motion.
- The new details in the Hubble’s telescope include filaments and blobs of various sizes with one filament that appears shaped like a giant L.
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