"Discovery: The Universe's Brightest Object Eats One Sun Per Day"
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Astronomers have discovered the brightest object ever, a quasar called J0529-4351, located 12 billion light years away and shining over 500 trillion times more luminous than the Sun. This supermassive black hole is growing at an unprecedented rate, consuming the equivalent of one Sun per day, and has a mass of 17 billion Suns. The discovery, made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, highlights the potential of studying distant supermassive black holes to unravel mysteries of the early Universe.
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