Discovered a monstrous black hole. The sun is at its grain – TVN Meteo

An international team of scientists in China, Chile, Australia and the USA under the direction of Professor Xue-Bing Wu of Peking University noticed a big black hole record. It is located in a quasar with a fancy name SDSS J010013.02 + 280225.8, a distance of 12.8 billion light years from Earth. Researchers estimate that the entire object (ie, a quasar with a black hole) was created when the The universe consisted of as only 875 million years old.

Extra-bright

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe, constantly emitting radiation electromagnetic enormous power. In the nineteenth century, was suspected that this is just a star. However, in the mid-twentieth century, when the sky was observed through telescopes, scientists observed radio emission.

Quasar SDSS J010013.02 + 280225.8 was spotted by a 2-meter Telescope Lijiang in Yunnan (China). It turned out that there are 12 billion times that of the Sun, and located in the black hole shines 420 trillion times brighter than our star.

– This is the only so-distant quasar spotted by a 2-meter telescope. We are therefore very proud – said study co-author Wang Feige.

Great Expectations

The researchers hope that further observations of the quasar using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray will shed new light on the formation of black holes and galaxies in the universe.

– This quasar is very unique – said Dr. Wu Xue-Bing. – This will help us to delve into the knowledge of the early stages of the universe – he added.

The observed results were published in the scientific magazine “Nature”.