Astronomers have discovered potentially the brightest object in the universe
- February 19, 2024
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An international team of astronomers has discovered a quasar with a black hole at its center that is growing so fast that it cools the equivalent of one
An international team of astronomers has discovered a quasar with a black hole at its center that is growing so fast that it cools the equivalent of one Sun per day.
This was reported by AP, as reported by Ukrinform.
The space object itself shines 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun.
The black hole feeding it is more than 17 billion times the size of the Sun and absorbs about 370 Suns per year.
The quasar is 12 billion light-years away from Earth and has existed since the early days of the universe.
It was noted that the European Southern Observatory noticed the object called J0529-4351 during sky monitoring in 1980, but it was believed to be a star all this time. Astronomers identified it as a quasar just last year.
Observations made with telescopes in Australia and Chile’s Atacama Desert confirmed this fact.
As reported by Ukrinform, an international group of astronomers was able to detect the ultrafast wind of a black hole in the Markarian 817 galaxy, thanks to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.
Photo: ESO/M. kornmesser
Source: Ukrinform
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