An artists impression of the quasar J059-4351.
(Photo:ESO/M.
However, starsand even our Sunare not the brightest things in the universe.
An artist’s impression of the quasar J059-4351. (Photo:ESO/M. Kornmesser)
Quasars hold that highest honor.
Excitingly, researchers havediscoveredthe brightest quasar yet known500 trillion times brighter than our own Sun.
It has a mass of 17 billion Suns, and eats just over a Sun per day.
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) captures the quasar. (Photo:ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey)
This makes it the most luminous object in the known Universe.
The black hole is no longer expanding at the rate it once did.
It has literally been staring us in the face until now, stated co-author Christopher Onken.
However, the past of the quasar can tell us a lot.
ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT) captures the quasar.
