Thursday 26 February 2015

Astronomers find a shockingly ancient black hole the size of 12 billion suns

Astronomers find a shockingly ancient black hole the size of 12 billion suns


Some 12.8 billion light years away, astronomers have spotted an object of almost impossible brightness — the most luminous object ever seen in such ancient space. It's from just 900 million years after the big bang, and the old quasar — a shining object produced by a massive black hole — is 420 trillion times more luminous than our sun.

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