Astronomers have found a record-breaking quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.
The black hole the distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense and 500 trillion times brighter than our sun.The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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