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The age of the quasars

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An infrared census of accreting supermassive black holes across a wide range of cosmic times indicates that the canonical understanding of how these luminous objects form and evolve may need to be adjusted.

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Figure 1: The energy output of quasars over cosmic time.

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  1. Daniel Mortlock is in the Departments of Physics and of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.,

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Mortlock, D. The age of the quasars. Nature 514, 43–44 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/514043a

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