Astronomers Confirm First Merging Quasars from Cosmic Dawn
Discovery of the most distant quasar pair offers insights into early universe formation and the Epoch of Reionization.
Overview
- Merging quasars discovered 900 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest known collision of its kind.
- The quasars are situated in the Cosmic Dawn, a crucial period for star and galaxy formation.
- Each quasar hosts a supermassive black hole approximately 100 million times the mass of the Sun.
- The presence of a gas bridge between the quasars indicates a major galactic merger.
- This discovery supports theories about the frequent mergers of galaxies in the early universe.