The brightest objects are sometimes the 1 that are the most difficult to get – that ’s why it took so long for astronomers to get word the brightest quasar of the last 9 billion years . power this extreme physical object is a supermassive black hole one C of times great thanthe one at the heart and soul of the Milky Way . It is the quickest - uprise supermassive black gob ever found .

The quasar ’s true brightness level is equivalent to about 7,000 times the entire Milky Way ’s combined luminosity Way . It is so brilliant that it reaches a magnitude of 14.5 – bright enough to be seeable with a standard personal scope , so you could well see the brilliant effects of this eating mordant hole by yourself .

“ Astronomers have been hunt for objects like this for more than 50 years . They have line up K of fainter 1 , but this astonishingly bright one had slipped through unnoticed , ” lead source Dr Christopher Onken , from Australia National University , say in astatement .

The work is useable on theArXivand submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia . It is puzzle that an object like this is still accreting mass – most supermassive black holes from the time of this one had already settled down .

This object ( have it off as SMSS J114447.77 - 430859.3 ) continue to feed undeterred . The quasi-stellar radio source could be the final result of a galaxy merger that ply the supermassive black hole with a gaseous state artificial lake crowing enough to feed it for billions of long time , making it so vivid .

“ This black hole is such an outlier that while you should never say never , I do n’t trust we will find another one like this , ” atomic number 27 - writer Associate Professor Christian Wolf added . “ We are fairly convinced this criminal record will not be broken . We have essentially run out of sky where object like this could be hiding . ”

The supermassive fateful muddle weighs around 3 billion metre the mass of the Sun , quite the goodish physical object . Its light come to us from when the Universe was about half of its current long time .

“ It is 500 time self-aggrandising than the black hole in our own Galaxy , ” explain conscientious objector - writer and ANUgraduate investigator Samuel Lai . “ The field of the planets in our Solar System would all fit inside its event horizon - the black hole ’s bounds from which nothing can escape . ”