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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 ]