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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/coreyspowell/statuses/111973543898788701">Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 15:56:06 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell" title="coreyspowell@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/32826-48-20221119233213.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Corey S Powell" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Corey S Powell</a></section><article><p>Scientists have to reset their superlatives. A quasar known as J0529-4351 is the most luminous single object in the known universe, emitting as much energy as 500 trillion suns. </p><p>It's powered by a supermassive black hole that swallows 300,000 Earth masses of gas *every day*.</p><p><a href="https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2402/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2402/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" rel="tag">#space</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2747285#notice-5447948">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-22T15:56:06+09:00" title="Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 15:56:06 JST">about 9 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/111973543898788701" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/111973543898788701">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2290231">Left: This image shows the region of the sky in which the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351 is situated. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. This picture was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2, while the inset shows the location of the quasar in an image from the Dark Energy Survey. Right: This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. The supermassive black hole, seen here pulling in surrounding matter, has a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun and is growing in mass by the equivalent of another Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole ever known.(ESO)</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/973/538/418/406/104/original/c47ac6638d93200e.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/973/538/418/406/104/original/c47ac6638d93200e.jpg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 15:56:06 JST Corey S Powell
Scientists have to reset their superlatives. A quasar known as J0529-4351 is the most luminous single object in the known universe, emitting as much energy as 500 trillion suns.
It's powered by a supermassive black hole that swallows 300,000 Earth masses of gas *every day*.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2402/ #science #nature #astronomy #space
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1. Left: This image shows the region of the sky in which the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351 is situated. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. This picture was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2, while the inset shows the location of the quasar in an image from the Dark Energy Survey. Right: This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. The supermassive black hole, seen here pulling in surrounding matter, has a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun and is growing in mass by the equivalent of another Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole ever known.(ESO)
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