said object J0529-4351It is located 12 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus.

At first it was mistaken for a very bright star in our galaxy. But later researchers realized it was too bright.

• The object passes the Sun 600 trillion times and there is an accretion disk – a disk of matter orbiting a black hole, 7 light years in diameterIt is 15,000 times greater than the distance between the Sun and Neptune.
• Just last year, astronomers from the Australian National University were able to identify the object as a quasar using data from the SkyMapper telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).
• The black hole in this record-breaking quasar is growing in mass at a rate equivalent to one Sun per day, making it the fastest growing black hole ever.

Researchers note that the search for quasars is a difficult task because it requires precise observations of large areas of the sky. The amount of data is so large that artificial intelligence models are often used to analyze it and detect quasars.

But these models are trained on existing data, meaning they only recognize objects that are similar to known ones. And if the new quasar is brighter than any of the previous ones, as in this case, the AI ​​algorithm may ignore it and classify it as a nearby star.

The unique properties of J0529-4351 will help scientists determine the mass of the supermassive black hole and measure its rotation around its axis in the near future, with the GRAVITY+ instrument to be installed on the VLT. Researchers will be able to estimate the relationship between the mass of supermassive black holes and the brightness of their radiation.