TON 618

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Scientists are studying the structure and composition of the quasar TON 618, examining components such as the accretion disk and ejecta. They study the supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar, focusing on its mass and its influence on the object's characteristics. There is a hypothesis explaining how TON 618 was able to accumulate such a mass: if the age of the Universe is 13.8 billion years, then TON 618 formed between one and two billion years after the Big Bang.

The object was discovered in 1957 as part of a study of dim blue stars (mostly white dwarfs) located outside the plane of the Milky Way. The concept of a quasar only emerged in 1963, so the nature of the object remained unclear at the time of its discovery. In 1970, the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Bologna detected radio emission from TON 618, after which the object was identified as a quasar. The object received its name from the first letters of the Mexican observatory Tonantzintla.

The distance to the quasar is more than 10 billion light years. The quasar is about 140 trillion times brighter than the Sun, completely outshining the galaxy in which it is located. The mass of the black hole is 66 billion solar masses. An accretion disk of hot gas rotates around the black hole, its rotation speed is about 7000 km/s. TON 618 is approximately 2600 astronomical units in diameter (the term "astronomical unit" is used to refer to the distance from the Sun to the Earth). The emission lines in the spectrum of TON 618 are unusually broad, indicating that gas in the accretion disk is moving at high speed.

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