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"Discovery: Universe's Brightest Quasar Powered by Black Hole Eating a Sun a Day"
astronomy1 year ago

"Discovery: Universe's Brightest Quasar Powered by Black Hole Eating a Sun a Day"

Scientists have discovered the most luminous object ever detected in the distant Universe, a quasar known as J0529-4351, powered by a supermassive black hole 17 billion times the mass of the Sun. This black hole has a voracious appetite, consuming the mass equivalent to one Sun every day, and its energy emission makes it over 500 trillion times more luminous than the Sun. The discovery, confirmed by observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, has astonished scientists, who say the quasar's emission has taken 12 billion years to reach Earth and that its hot accretion disc measures seven light-years in diameter, making it the largest in the Universe.