Newly discovered supermassive black hole breaks all records. As of: February 21, 2024, 6:25 a.m By: Tanja Banner CommentsPressSplit This artist's impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy powered by a supermassiveBlack hole.
The quasar is so far from Earth that its light took more than twelve billion years to reach us. It shines more than 500 trillion times brighter than the sun. Despite its superlatives, it remained unrecognized for a long time.