Cosmic Exploration · discovery
Quasars
1963 · Maarten Schmidt
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- 1963
Description
3C 273's spectrum matched nothing until Schmidt recognised ordinary hydrogen lines redshifted by 16%. That put it two billion light-years away and radiating more than a hundred galaxies from a region the size of the solar system.
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