Searching for the Most Distant Quasars in the Universe


Wednesday, 29 July 2020 7 a.m. — 8 a.m. MST

Online event

Live from NOIRLab
Jinyi Yang (NSF's NOIRLab)
Website URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT0eUsyj0eQ

Jinyi Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. In this edition of Live from NOIRLab @ Gemini, she discusses her research on quasars.

NOIRLab Press release: Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe

Related paper- Pōniuāʻena: A Luminous z = 7.5 Quasar Hosting a 1.5 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.13452.pdf

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