Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. They have detected the most luminous object ever observed in the universe, a quasar named J0529-4351, located 12 billion light-years away in the early universe.
This quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, is an incredibly bright source of light, emitting 500 trillion times more luminosity than the sun. Surprisingly, despite its immense brightness, this quasar had gone unnoticed until now, highlighting the vastness of the cosmos.
