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 team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The exciting thing about this quasar is that it was hiding in plain sight and was misclassified as a star previously, Yale University's Priyamvada Natarajan, who was not involved in the study, said in an email.
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