Redshift 5.8: A New Farthest Quasar
			
		
		
		
			The distance record for a 
quasar
has been broken yet again.  
At the present time, no other object in the 
universe 
has been found to be more distant than the above speck.  
The recently discovered quasar has been clocked 
at redshift 5.82.  
The exact relation between 
redshift and distance remains 
presently unknown, although surely higher 
redshifts do mean greater distance.  
The above quasar is likely billions of 
light-years away and so is seen when the 
universe was younger 
than one billion years old, 
less than a tenth of its present age.  
Like all 
quasars, this object is probably a 
large black hole 
in the center of a distant galaxy.
Don't close the 
record book yet, though.  
The redshifts to several 
other SDSS-discovered quasars 
are currently being measured, 
some of which might have 
redshifts greater than six.