New Distant Record of Quasars

The Euclid space telescope has established the new distant record of quasars at z=7.77 (D. Yang et al. 2026, A&A, 711, A104). The ESA press release: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_discovers_the_most_ancient_quasar_in_the_Universe A Japanese article in NIKKEI with my comments: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOSG136640T10C26A7000000/