Astronomers Find What May Be the Universe's Brightest Object With a Black Hole Devouring a Sun a Day
The brightest quasar in the universe discovered, 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, black hole 17 billion times more massive than the sun. [ more ]
The Brightest Quasar Ever Seen Eats a 'Sun' Every Day
J0529-4351 is the brightest and most luminous quasar ever discovered, with a supermassive black hole consuming the equivalent of one sun's mass per day.
The newly discovered quasar is located so far from Earth that its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us, providing a glimpse of the universe at just under 2 billion years old. [ more ]
Venture inside a 'monster' supermassive black hole
A new image of the M87 black hole confirms the presence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy.
The image shows the shift in the bright 'shadow' of the black hole over time, confirming predictions based on Einstein's theories of relativity. [ more ]