Record ultraviolet quasar wind reaches 30% light speed near supermassive black hole

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• Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility An artist's impression of a quasar.
• The black dot in the center represents the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar.
• The red-and-yellow spiral surrounding it shows the disc of hot gas falling into the black hole.
• Some of this gas is ejected as the quasar's wind, which is shown in light blue.