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PKS 0637-752 is so distant that we see it as it was 6 billion years ago. It is a luminous quasar that radiates with the power of 10 trillion suns from a region smaller than our solar system. The source of this prodigious energy is believed to be a supermassive black hole.

Multi-wavelength Images: (all images to same scale)
X-ray NASA/CXC/SAO Jpg (24 k) Tiff (869 k) PS (1.6 MB)	Optical DSS Jpg (59 k) Tiff (8.7 MB) PS (7.3 MB)	Radio ATCA/A. Burgess & D. Hunstead Jpg (85 k) Tiff (1.5 k) PS (769 k)

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