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Monday, February 19, 2024

Zooming in on Record-breaking Quasar J0529-4351 | ESO

Zooming in on Record-breaking Quasar J0529-4351 | ESO

This video takes us on a journey from our Milky Way far into the sky to the quasar J0529-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy, in the direction of the Pictor constellation. Using 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. It is so far away that its light has taken over 12 billion years to reach us. The supermassive black hole powering J0529-4351 is the fastest-growing black hole ever discovered. The video ends with an artist’s impression of this record-breaking object; all other visuals shown are real astronomical images.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/N. Risinger/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey/M. Kornmesser

Duration: 55 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 19, 2024

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