Cosmic Powerhouses Dwell In Humble Galactic Homes

The distribution of all quasars found in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We are located at the centre of the plot, with quasars at increasingly large distances moving away from the centre. Even amongst all these quasars, only a handful had nearby bright stars so that adaptive optics could be used. The quasars imaged by Gemini are circled in blue and are typically about 12 billion light years away.