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 quasar, J0529-4351, is located so far from Earth ...

With a mass 17 billion times larger than our sun, ... This illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory this month depicts the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.. The record ...

This quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the universe to date. An image shows the region of the sky in which the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351 is situated.

To give some idea of the luminosity of a quasar, scientists at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London describe how the nearest quasar, 3C 272, has a luminosity of 2.5 x ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record ...

This quasar eats one Sun a day for breakfast. This 17-billion-solar-mass black hole is chowing down on a disk of matter that shines brighter than 500 trillion Suns.

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.. The record ...

The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led ...

Star formation has ceased within at least 16 million light-years of the quasar. ... A gas cloud 5,500 times as massive as the sun lurks nearby By Mara Johnson-Groh May 2, 2025.