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by InclinedPlane 5038 days ago
It goes everywhere.

The thing is, the Universe is a big place. So even if you have sagans of tonnes of mass being converted to energy every second in extremely powerful jets around a supermassive black hole (which we do, in the vast majority of galaxies) given enough distance it's still just another tiny point of light in the sky.

However, quasars are just this sort of phenomenon and are so bright that they are visible in telescopes across almost the entire extent of the visible universe.