Earliest Flickering Quasar Ever Seen — Just 850 Million Years After the Big Bang!

[00:00:02]Hey everyone, astronomers have discovered the earliest flickering quasar ever seen shining just 850 million years after the Big Bang.

[00:00:12]>> [music] >> This quasar is as bright as 12 trillion suns and flickers by about 20%.

[00:00:19]The biggest surprise, [music] it has a thin flat accretion disk just like mature quasars today.

[00:00:26]This creates a major mystery.

[00:00:28]How did such a super massive black hole grow and mature so incredibly fast in the very early universe?

[00:00:36]The discovery shows that the feeding processes of quasars were already working almost the same way at the dawn of the cosmos.