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[Astronomy Fun Facts]:Supermassive Black Hole
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A black hole eats a sun every day, do you believe it? There is a kind of galaxy called "Quasar" (Quasar Galaxy), and there are usually black holes in their centers. J0529-4351 is such a galaxy. Its location is in the Pictor constellation which is in the southern half of the celestial sphere. According to astronomers, this quasar was formed 1.5 billion years after the birth of the universe. The light it emits takes 12 billion years to reach our earth. The supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar J0529−4351 has a mass of about 17 billion times that of the Sun.( It is not the most massive black hole known. One of the largest known is the black hole powering the quasar TON 618, which is estimated to have a mass of about 60 billion Suns). Just like people, black holes get hungry every day. Although the black hole of J0529-4351 is not the largest black hole, it is the largest eater in the universe we know. Its food intake is so large that a celestial body as big as our sun (about 1.3 million times the size of the Earth) is only its meal for a day. Because of its huge food intake every day, the golden light it emits is so bright that it is truly the best in the universe and unrivaled in the world. (see further reading: Astronomers Discover the Brightest Known Object in the Universe, Shining 500 Trillion Times as Bright as the Sun)

(2024-02-15)