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Physics News Update
Number 32 (Story #1), May 1, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

NEW HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASARS have been discovered. A Cambridge-Greenwich-Pittsburgh team has reported finding a quasar, BR1202-07, with a redshift of 4.7. Meanwhile, James Gunn of Princeton (609-452-3802) has supposedly observed, but not yet announced, a quasar with a redshift of 4.9. (New Scientist, 27 April 1991.)