Discovery of record-breaking Quasar J0529-4351: The brightest in the Universe | – Times of India
It was astronomers who spotted J0529-4351, the most powerful quasar thanks to its brightness 500 trillion times greater than that of the sun. This quasar’s incredible brightness, previously described in a study focused on data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, comes from an active supermassive black hole (~17 Billion solar masses), which devours the mass at a rate of 1 sun per day.The mass of this black hole is roughly 17 billion times the mass of the sun, making it the fastest growing black hole known to be. The light from the quasar, which requires 12 billion years to travel to Earth, is of extreme importance in understanding the first stages in the evolution of the Universe.Understanding the challenges of discoveryYet, even with this incredible brightness, J0529-4351 was the first...