Chandra Release - August 8, 2019

Visual Description: QSO PSO167-13

A three-panel graphic features one wide field and two insets of the quasar known as PSO J167-13. The insets feature two close up dots on the right side, one of which is bigger (blue dot, left), and one of which is brighter though smaller (red squiggly dot, right). The main panel is a large wide-field image of the area surrounding PSO J167-13 from the optical PanSTARRS survey. The small image on the bottom (left) contains X-rays detected with Chandra from a small, central region around the location of the quasar, marked on the large optical image with a red cross, right in the center. In the middle is the quasar PSO167-13, which was first discovered with PanSTARRS. Optical observations from these and other surveys have resulted in the detection of about 200 quasars that, like PSO167-13, were already shining brightly when the universe was less than a billion years old, or about 7 percent of its present age. On the bottom right, the image shows the same field of view as seen by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of radio dishes in Chile. The bright source is the quasar and a faint, nearby companion galaxy is seen to the lower left.