The black hole of the quasar, which is 12 billion light years away, is expanding at the quickest rate yet observed.
According to estimates, the massive black hole driving it has a mass of 17–19 billion times that of the sun and is expanding at the quickest rate yet observed.
The luminous centers of “active galaxies,” or those with supermassive black holes eating enormous amounts of matter, are known as quasars.
Discovered by a team led by Australia, the record-breaking quasar is consuming the mass of a sun every day as it absorbs enormous volumes of gas.
Its black hole’s revolving disk of gas has been compared to a cosmic hurricane, which scientists claim emits energy greater than 500 trillion times that of the sun.
Lead author Christian Wolf of the Australian National University declared, “This quasar is the most violent place that we know in the universe.”
