Boötes
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
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| 2023 |
CEERS 1019
A scientific preprint was published describing CEERS 1019, highlighting the challenging nature of its black hole's existence, which appears to be less massive than other early universe black holes but still unexplainable by current black hole growth models.
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| 2021 |
ULAS J1342+0928
ULAS J1342+0928 was surpassed by QSO J0313-1806 as the most distant known quasar, losing its previous record status.
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| 2017 |
ULAS J1342+0928
Discovery of ULAS J1342+0928, a highly distant quasar with a supermassive black hole 780 million times the mass of the Sun, located in the Boötes constellation.
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| 2017 |
ULAS J1342+0928
ULAS J1342+0928 was reported as the most distant quasar observed at that time, located approximately 29.36 billion light-years from Earth and emitting light less than 690 million years after the Big Bang.
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| December 6 2017 |
ULAS J1342+0928
Astronomers published the discovery of ULAS J1342+0928, a quasar found using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), UK Infrared Telescope, and DECam Legacy Survey. The quasar was spectroscopically confirmed using observations from the Magellan Telescopes, Large Binocular Telescope, and Gemini North telescope.
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| 2012 | Nu Bootids meteor shower was hypothesized. |
| 2011 | Discovery of HD 131496 b, a planet with a mass of 1.43 Jupiter masses, orbiting at a distance of 2.09 AU with a period of 883 days. |
| 2011 | Discovery of HD 132563B b, a planet in a triple star system, orbiting 2.62 AU from its star with a period of 1544 days and an orbital eccentricity of 0.22. |
| 2010 | Rho Bootids meteor shower was hypothesized. |
| 2010 | Discovery of WASP-23 b, a planet smaller than Jupiter, orbiting every 2.944 days at a distance of 0.0376 AU via the transit method. |
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