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A long-lost population of active supermassive black holes, or quasars, has been uncovered by NASA\'s Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. This image, taken with Spitzer\'s infrared vision, shows a fraction of these black holes, which are located deep in the bellies of distant, massive galaxies (circled in blue). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Commissariat a l\'Energie Atomique

A long-lost population of active supermassive black holes, or quasars, has been uncovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. This image, taken with Spitzer's infrared vision, shows a fraction of these black holes, which are located deep in the bellies of distant, massive galaxies (circled in blue). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique

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