Your ID: 0116 First name: Cristian Last name: Vignali Affiliation: Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita` di Bologna, Italy Title: THE REALM OF THE FIRST QUASARS IN THE UNIVERSE Authors: C. vignali Topic: 1 Abstract: Quasars at z>4 provide direct information on the first massive structures to form in the Universe. During the past six years, over 100 quasars at z>4 have been detected in the X-rays; here we review the results from Chandra and XMM-Newton and provide a broad-band perspective.