mo4ch:>Shining like 600 trillions suns: Hubble spots stunning star-producing quasar | Mo4ch News

After a 20 year search, the Hubble Telescope has found the brightest quasar ever seen in the early universe, which is brighter than 600-trillion suns and creates 100,000 stars each year.What’s a Quasar?Quasars are massive celestial objects which emit huge amounts of energy. They are the bright nuclei of active galaxies and have a star-like appearance when seen through a telescope.Also on rt.comHubble captures awe-inspiring PHOTO of Triangulum galaxy that spans 19,400 light-yearsThe quasar, named J043947.08+163415.7, is so old that the light received from it started its journey when the universe was only 1 billion years old – that’s some 12 billion years ago.The quasar is powered by a huge black hole, which is estimated to be several hundred million times bigger than our sun, astronomers will detail in an upcoming paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The team estimate the quasar may be producing up to 10,000 stars per year, making the Milky Way’s mere single star per year look prett…