BEIJING: The scientists of Asia have discovered black hole which is 12 billion times massive than the sun. The astronomers from China and Arizona declared their research findings in the scientific journal named as Nature.
The discovery of this quasar, named SDSS J0100+2802, marks an important step in understanding how quasars have evolved from the earliest epoch 900 million years after the Big Bang, thought to have happened 13.7 billion years ago. The quasar, with its central black hole mass of 12 billion solar masses and the luminosity of 420 trillion suns, is at a distance of 12.8 billion light-years from Earth.
The discovery of this ultraluminous quasar also presents a major puzzle to the theory of black hole growth at early universe, according to Fan Xiaohui, Regents’ Professor of Astronomy at the UA’s Steward Observatory, who co-authored the study.
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