"Unveiling the Brightest Object in the Universe: A 500 Trillion Times Brighter Than the Sun"

Astronomers have possibly discovered the brightest object ever observed in the universe, a distant quasar estimated to be at least 500 trillion times brighter than the sun. The quasar, identified by Australian researchers using the Very Large Telescope and Siding Spring Observatory, is powered by a supermassive black hole more than 17 billion times larger than our sun and is located about 12 billion light years away. The finding, reported in Nature Astronomy, could provide important insights into the early universe and the growth of supermassive black holes.