[HIGHLIGHTS] “500,000 billion times brighter than the Sun”: discovery of the brightest celestial object in the universe

Australian astrophysicists have detected a supermassive black hole with the most intense activity ever recorded. This quasar “swallows” the equivalent of a Sun’s worth of material every day.

It has a mass greater than 17 billion of our Sun and eats a little more than one Sun per day. The quasar, named J0529-4351, is 12 billion light years away and devours the equivalent. of 370 Suns each year. It is “the most violent place we know in the universe”