Scientists Spot the Brightest Object Ever – IOTW Report

Scientists Spot the Brightest Object Ever

It’s 500 Trillion Times More Luminous Than the Sun.

19 Comments on Scientists Spot the Brightest Object Ever

  1. I sure hope these are not the same scientists that predicted human extinction from famine, a disappearing ozone layer or a coming ice age.

    And how do you quantify 500 trillion? If government has taught me anything, it is this, numbers are meaningless, as evidence by our nation debt. My generation thought a billion was serious dough, this one plays with “trillion” like its normal. Quadrillion is right around the corner.

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  2. “Growing in mass by the equivalent of one Sun per day, it’s the fastest-growing black hole to date, but at 12 billion light years away, it probably burnt out long ago. The light detected today is merely the echo of its existence.”

    It happened 12 billion years ago. Time travel IS possible.

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  3. @Wild Bill:

    Time travel IS possible.

    In fact, time travel is the only sort of travel that is inherently unavoidable. We travel through time at the inexorable rate of one second per second.

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