Like the combined luminosity of a hundred trillion (1014) Suns.
What is the luminosity of the most powerful quasars?
- A new quasar with a 12 billion solar mass central black hole and 430 trillion solar luminosity was found by the Peking University Department of Astronomy at a distance of 12.8 billion light years from the Earth.
- This quasar, driven by the most massive black hole then known to exist, is the most brilliant one to be found in the early Universe.
- The finding of this quasar, designated SDSS J0100+2802, represents a significant advancement in our understanding of the evolution of quasars, the most potent cosmic phenomena, from their inception nine hundred million years after the Big Bang.
- On February 26, 2015, the leading scientific publication Nature reported on this discovery.
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