US EditionAstronomers find what may be the universe's brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day
- Astronomers have discovered the brightest object in the universe, a quasar, 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, with a black hole growing rapidly.
- Observations by telescopes in Australia and Chile confirmed the identity of the quasar, first mistaken for a star in a 1980 sky survey.
- Research on the powerful quasar, consuming mass at an incredible rate, is published in Nature Astronomy, with more observations needed for further understanding.
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The supermassive black hole has been known for many years — but only now have scientists realized its power. The black hole is said to have about 17 billion times the mass of our sun — and is believed to devour the equivalent of one sun per day, the BBC reports.
The brightest object ever observed in the night sky is a black hole that’s growing by the equivalent of one Sun a day
Merlin74 / ShutterstockA new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than the Sun every single day. It has been known about for several decades, but since it is so bright, astronomers assumed it must be a nearby star. Only recent observations revealed its extreme distance and luminosity. The object h…
Astronomers have spotted a black hole that they say is the “fastest growing so far.” It can “swallow” the equivalent of a sun every day and is equivalent to more than 500 billion suns. It is believed that its existence dates back to the primitive era of the universe 13.8 billion years ago. According to a study published in the journal “Nature”, Australian National University astronomer Christian Wolff, the lead author of the study, said in a sta…
The universe's brightest object eats the mass of the sun every day, astronomers say
Astronomers recently detected what is now considered the brightest-known object in the universe. This intensely large and powerful quasar proved surprisingly elusive, indicating that finding more quasars may require a new approach.Read Entire Article
This discovery was made in the heart of the most luminous quasar ever observed, according to a study published in Nature Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole that absorbs the equivalent of a
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