Astronomers Discover Object 500 Trillion Times Brighter Than The Sun
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Quasars are the extremely bright cores of galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes at their centres.
Astronomers have discovered the brightest object ever observed in the universe. Using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers identified a quasar described as the "brightest of its kind" and the "most luminous object ever observed," according to a statement.
Quasars are the extremely bright cores of galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes at their centres. As gas and dust fall into these black holes, they release electromagnetic radiation, producing intense light, as reported by Newsweek.
This newly discovered quasar is not only record-breaking in brightness but is also rapidly growing, a characteristic of the brightest quasars in the galaxy. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, notes that this quasar, named J0529-4351, is growing at a rate equivalent to one sun per day and is over 500 trillion times brighter than the sun.
