A Quasar's Jet

“Hovering at a safe distance from a quasar 5 billion light years away. The supermassive black hole's accretion disk blazes brighter than its entire host galaxy in the foreground, a relativistic jet of plasma rockets perpendicular to the disk for kiloparsecs ending in a hot spot lobe, the host galaxy is dim by comparison, and the universe at high redshift glows in the background.”

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