This week in science: California wolves, the world's bugs, and the earliest quasars
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DETROW: I mean, this is a cool thing to think about and envision. But I assume astronomers need a little more than this is cool for doing this work. Like, what is the practical value...

ROTT: (Laughter).

BARBER: Yeah.

DETROW: ...Of spending time trying to ID these?

BARBER: Yeah, so these quasars are from, like, soon after the big bang. They're much bigger and brighter than astronomers would expect them to be that early in the universe. So Daming says there's a lot of questions about how they got so big so fast.

YANG: Like, what are they grown from? How did they grow? Like, these questions - by only collecting more of these quasars, we can answer this.

ROTT: And these ancient quasars might tell scientists more of the era when stars were born from the primordial hot goo that occurred after the big bang.

DETROW: We will save the primordial hot goo for another day.

ROTT: (Laughter) Fair, fair (ph).

BARBER: Yes.

DETROW: And let's move on to topic three, wolves.

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