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English: In visible light, 4C 71.07 is less than impressive, just a distant speck of light. It's in radio and in X-rays - and now, gamma rays - that this object really shines.
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Source https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/ast24nov99_1
Author NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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4C 71.07 is its designation in the 4th Cambridge University catalog of radio sources. 4C 71.07 has a red shift of z=2.17, putting it about 11 billion light-years away in a 12 to 15-billion year-old universe (using z=1 as 5 billion light years).

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