It never gets here. Its light took a billion years.
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No. Life cannot exist anywhere near a quasar. For one thing there is no "on" a quasar. A quasar consists of a disk of extremely hot matter falling into a supermassive black hole. What cannot cross the event horizon is ejected in jets at the poles at nearly the speed of light. The radiation of even a moderate quasar is more than 10 trillion times that of the sun. Even light years away any planet would be completely sterilized.
36 light-years, or 11 parsecs.
Material in a quasar is ejected away from the black hole, but that material never crosses the event horizon. Nothing that crosses the event horizon can ever escape.
It means it has taken light 130 years to travel the distance. Light travels 5,878,630,000,000 miles in 1 year, so something 130 light years away, is a LONG way away.
9 minutes. Light travels about 10 million miles a minute.
10 billion light years was the distance. And we believe it was a quasar.
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No. Life cannot exist anywhere near a quasar. For one thing there is no "on" a quasar. A quasar consists of a disk of extremely hot matter falling into a supermassive black hole. What cannot cross the event horizon is ejected in jets at the poles at nearly the speed of light. The radiation of even a moderate quasar is more than 10 trillion times that of the sun. Even light years away any planet would be completely sterilized.
It could be a star, a galaxy, a quasar.
Quasars are too far away for a real photo, [but the related link] has an artists impression of what a quasar should look like.
2,880,526,350,000,000 miles.
A quasar is a lot like a black hole, in that it was once a star. There are many spikes that do project from the center of the quasar. These are optical spikes. they are like a glare that the telescopes see when they look at a star. if you look at the sun off of a mirror, you can see the same optical spikes from the sun. It is basically a You can also see another line that extends from both sides of the quasar. These lines that you see are actually super heated gas that has been shot out from the center of the quasar. These streams extend many light-years away from the quasar. If you want to learn more, look at some of the Hubble pictures of quasars.
Our sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles away. One light year isapproximately 5,866,000,000,000 miles away. 93,000,000/5,866,000,000,000 = 0.0000158 light years.
One light year away is equal to: 9,461,000,000,000 kilometers 9,461,000,000,000,000 meters 5,879,000,000,000 miles
Sirius is about 8.6 light years away which works out to about 50,600,000,000,000 (50.6 trillion) miles away.
I think that proxima centauri is approximately 4 light years away from the sun. One light year is equal to 5,865,696,000,000 miles. So, 5,865,696,000,000x4 = 23,462,784,000,000 Proxima Centauri is approximately 23,462,748,000,000 miles away from the sun.
Black Holes, also known as Quasars: Quasar OJ287 the biggest known is 18 Billion solar masses big about 13 billion light years away.