Quasar 3c-273

[FrancoRodriguez]

Quasar 3c-273. Took a few nights to capture the data. This is an actively feeding black hole 900,000 times our sun's mass, at an astonishing 2.4 billion light years away (more now due to the universe's expansion). This makes it 17% the distance to the edge of the observable universe. It can be photographed because it pumps out 4 trillion times our sun's wattage. I managed to capture a jet of matter spewing out at a relativistic velocity--that's the thin spike protruding at 2 o'clock. From my understanding there are two spikes but only one can be seen due to the relativistic beaming effect
L 39x300s, R 10x300s, G 3x300s, B 10x300s
Planewave CDK14, FLI 16803
https://www.astrobin.com/ah98at/

[GUS.K]

Wow, great catch.

[joshman]

I've got several expletive adjectives I could use to help describe just how cool this is.


needless to say; this is very cool.

[FrancoRodriguez]

Kind words, thanks! I can only be glad we were born at this wonderful time, that we have the tech to be able to image and understand what we're looking at. We live in a wonderous universe

[strongmanmike]

Great project Franco, who needs a 200" telescope anymore?! :thumbsup:

A great explanation of the identification of this object and the inimitable Parks radio telescope, can be read here (https://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/sar049/3C273/)

Mike

[CoolhandJo]

Wow nice work

[FrancoRodriguez]

Hey, thanks Mike! Will read with great interest.