Meet ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar ever found. A team of European astronomers have used a number of telescopes, data from The European UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and five years of searching to find it.
A quasar is a very bright, very distant galaxy that is juiced up by asupermassive black hole at its center. The black hole in the middle of ULAS J11 has a mass 2 billion times that of our sun, and the overall galaxy is the brightest object in the early Universe.
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