This week in science: California wolves, the world's bugs, and the earliest quasars
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DAMING YANG: A supermassive black hole caught in the act of feeding.

DETROW: What an amazing thing to think about.

BARBER: Yeah, so that's Daming Yang. He's the first author of the study out this week in the Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ph), which reports the discovery of 31 quasars. And these are among the oldest quasars ever found. And before this study, astronomers only knew a handful of quasars this old.

ROTT: Yeah. And, Scott, something that's kind of cool about this is that these were all found with a space telescope that not a lot of people know exist. It's called Euclid. The European Space Agency launched it in 2023, and although it isn't as powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope or James Webb, it was designed to scan large swaths of the sky, which makes it really awesome at finding rare objects.

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