Yousuf Khan wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote:

Quasar brightness and numbers peaks up in the first few billion
years of the universe. The evidence indicates that quasars are
due to infalling matter into super massive black holes residing
in the cores of galaxies.


Is there any estimates about if a quasar were to exist today, how
bright it would be comparatively in our sky?

Yousuf Khan


http://www.nrao.edu/pr/1998/quasars/