Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected | BBC News
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- čas přidán 19. 02. 2024
- The most luminous object ever detected has been spied in the distant Universe.
Known as J0529-4351, the object's power was confirmed in observations by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Scientists, reporting in the journal Nature Astronomy, say the black hole has a voracious appetite, consuming the mass equivalent to one Sun every day.
J0529-4351 was actually recorded in data many years ago but its true glory has only just been recognised.
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This quasar shines 500 TRILLION times brighter than the sun….. Thats insane to think about considering we go blind staring at the sun.
Everyday, we see a little further out there...and, the Universe gets a little bigger and a little older...
I love how the guest accentuates "17 BILLION!!" like any human can hardly fathom that number let alone the size of it.
500 trillion is an inconceivable number to fathom, the universe really is full of infinite possibilities on an infinite scale.
These stores always make me feel smaller than the smallest speck of matter in the inconceivably vast cosmos
500,000,000,000x brighter than the sun means almost nothing to me because I cant intelligibly imagine that.
I’m not knowledgeable about physics but I’m very excited about the advancement in black hole research
More content like this please!
The Universe is way older than what we expect and I love that
The light is 12 billion years old, imagine how big it must be today!😰
I wonder if there is a different mechanism for forming a black hole rather than the route of a collapsing massive star, as he said there would not be enough time for these very distant quasars to form. Maybe taking advantage of the high energy conditions in the very early universe.
My sincere thanks for sharing it.
500 trillion times brighter, that's seriously insane! Our sun is so bright that we'll go blind if we look directly at it. Imagine if the sun was a dollar....there isn't enough dollars in the world to match how bright this thing is, let that sink in.
Remember, the light coming off it is as how it was 12 billion years ago. We are observing 12 billion years in the past! That’s over 6 billion years before the solar system and the sun even formed, well before the first human set foot on Earth. Our own universe itself was just one billion years old
The brightest object in the universe is also the darkest object in the universe
this stuff just blows my mind tbh
It's so amazing! The distance from us, the brightness, and the magnitude of its gravity is mind-blowing.
In the beginning of the book AllatRa, by Anastasiya Novykh there is a deep explanation of the nature of black holes
What an excelent explanation. 👏
Maybe the eventual fate of the universe is to be devoured by it