8. Stars
Found Year: 1962
It was discovered by Maarten Schmidt.
Location: Multiple Sites
John Bolton and his colleagues at the University of Sydney were the first to observe the blue celestial objects that resemble stars and produce radio waves in the early 1960s. But details regarding 3C 273, the first quasar, weren’t released until 1962, when Maarten Schmidt conducted a more thorough examination (using the Hale optical telescope).
Quasars © Shutterstock/Jurik Peter
Supermassive black holes are thought to be the source of energy for quasars, which have the capacity to emit energy equivalent to 1,000 trillion times that of the Sun. According to one theory, learning more about quasars could reveal some of the mysteries surrounding the early galaxy’s evolution.
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