Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 17, 2018: Dr. Bram Venemans and Distant Quasars

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Dr. Venemans is a research staff scientist working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany. His research topics include the discovery of black holes in the early Universe, the characterisation of the galaxies hosting these distant black holes, the Epoch of Reionisation and the galaxy environment of active galaxies.

Bram is a member of the team that recently discovered the most distant quasar currently known and its host galaxy. You can read about this discovery here:

http://www.mpia.de/news/science/2017-14-distant-quasar

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