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Monday, February 19, 2024

Artist’s Impression of Record-breaking Quasar J0529-4351 | ESO

Artist’s Impression of Record-breaking Quasar J0529-4351 | ESO

This artist’s impression shows the quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. 

The supermassive black hole, seen here pulling in swirling surrounding matter, has a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun and is growing in mass by the equivalent of another Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole ever known. 

Read the Research paper: 

https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2402/eso2402a.pdf


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/M. Kornmesser

Duration: 18 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 19, 2024


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