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Near the left edge of this image is a starlike object known as TON 618, an abbreviation for Tonantzintla-618. It is a "hyperluminous, broad-emission-line, radio-loud quasar" (Wikipedia) thought to be 18.2 billion LYs away and to be between 41 and 66 billion Solar masses.
(NGC4414 and TON 618 (1776422506941))
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