The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns, has evaded astronomers for over 40 years because of its incredible luminosity. A newly discovered quasar …
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How the Brightest Quasar Ever Fooled Astronomers for 44 Years
A newly discovered quasar is a real record-breaker. Not only is it the brightest quasar ever seen, but it's also the brightest astronomical object in general ever seen. It's also powered by the hungriest and fastest-growing black hole ever seen — one that consumes the equivalent of over one sun's mass a day.
The active galaxies and the feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasars are seen as they were when the universe was less than one billion years …
The strange ultraluminous object breaks a physical law called the Eddington limit. Something in outer space is breaking the law — the laws of physics, …
The first (and only) black hole to ever have its snapshot taken from Earth shoots out vast jets of plasma that travel near the speed of light, new …
Quasars are the blazing centers of active galaxies and are powered by a supermassive black hole feeding on humungous quantities of gas. Quasars are …
