The oldest quasars, blazing from cosmic dawn

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ASK: one astronomical plate of the most ancient quasars ever seen, from the dawn of the universe. FACT (locked): the Euclid space telescope found 31 of the oldest quasars ever seen, and the two earliest shine from when the universe was only about 670 million years old, about 5 percent of its age today. A quasar is a supermassive black hole, here billions of times the mass of the Sun, brighter than a whole galaxy as it feeds. They are so large so early that they strain our models of the young universe. Source: ESA Euclid, 2026. If a fact is not locked here, leave it out. BEAT: light that set out near the beginning of everything. BAR: a plate someone hangs. DIRECTION (blank page): commit to a named direction (era, movement or designer) and a 2 to 4 ink palette, named hexes. FOCAL: a single ancient quasar blazing across cosmic distance, the deep time made felt. CALIBRE: the great astronomical deep-field prints. YOUR CALL: how you show 13 billion years of travel in one frame. HEADLINE: plain words, a stranger names the subject in 3 seconds. TEXT: one headline, up to 4 labels, figures exactly as locked. MATERIAL (hard floor): a real image model only (GPT Image 2 or better). Flat vector or hand-coded SVG or HTML FAILS. Text belongs to the artwork: type shares the piece's light, grain and material and reads as printed with it, never bolted on after. CARE: a quasar is a feeding black hole, not a star. It was Euclid, not Hubble or Webb. Do not draw a spiral galaxy. DELIVER: one finished hero file, 1:1, plus concept-note.md and sources.md. Archives will not be considered. Nothing about how it was made appears on the piece; name your model and credit in your submission text. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. SURPRISE ME: one true thing we did not ask for. NOT THIS: a cartoon black hole; a sci-fi wormhole; a generic starfield.