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Quasar Found 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun
Astronomy Trek ^ | 2016 | Astro Trek

Posted on 07/29/2016 3:23:48 PM PDT by blam

Quasar Found 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun

An international team of astronomers have discovered a huge quasar 420 trillion times brighter than our sun around 12.8 billion light years away from Earth, placing its formation around 875 million years after the big bang. The ancient object is powered by a massive black hole and contains a staggering 12 billion solar masses, surprising scientists who had not expected such a huge bright quasar so close to the dawn of time. The quasar was found using telescopes located in China, Hawaii, Arizona, and Chile, and as Xue-Bing Wu, of Peking University, explains:

“How could we have this massive black hole when the universe was so young? We don’t currently have a satisfactory theory to explain it.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at astronomytrek.com ...


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"Quasar Found 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun"

I don't like this title. It should read:

A Quasar 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than The Sun Has been Found

1 posted on 07/29/2016 3:23:49 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Mama always told me never look into the eyes of quasar, but Mama.., that’s where the fun is..


2 posted on 07/29/2016 3:25:31 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: blam

Excellent TV


3 posted on 07/29/2016 3:26:09 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: blam

Our sun is pretty stupid.


4 posted on 07/29/2016 3:26:10 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: blam

Wonder what strength of SPF sunscreen you should use?


5 posted on 07/29/2016 3:26:36 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: blam

420 trillion times brighter? Nah. 400 trillion times, at most.


6 posted on 07/29/2016 3:27:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: blam
In related news:

An international team of researchers has discovered a person who is only 420 trillion times brighter than our Community-Organizer-in-Chief.

7 posted on 07/29/2016 3:27:40 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: kaehurowing

2 Trillion


8 posted on 07/29/2016 3:27:42 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Common (solar) Core.


9 posted on 07/29/2016 3:28:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: blam

hehehehehehe Al Bore wants to know, has to know, why didn’t it burn itself out?


10 posted on 07/29/2016 3:28:47 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: blam

I sure hope they didn’t stare directly at it.


11 posted on 07/29/2016 3:29:36 PM PDT by Zarro (JAIL CONGRESS!)
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To: Eddie01

lol. Great remake.

Must be a great place to roast hot dogs.


12 posted on 07/29/2016 3:29:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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“We don’t currently have a satisfactory theory to explain it.”

Must have been caused by global warming.


13 posted on 07/29/2016 3:29:57 PM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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14 posted on 07/29/2016 3:30:11 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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“The quasar, named J0100+2802, has scientists now reexamining long held beliefs as in order for the black hole to expand to such a massive size in less than 900 million years it must have been sucking in the surrounding interstellar mass at near the maximum possible rate.”

Or sucking in the previous universe and still later J0100+2802 later became known as the Great Attractor - an object of such massive size that everything in this current universe is being drawn.


15 posted on 07/29/2016 3:33:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


16 posted on 07/29/2016 3:35:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Pollster1

Those eyes .. makes me think of a young Joe Biden.


17 posted on 07/29/2016 3:35:56 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Donglalinger

works in the drawer worked on more than a few the knew some of the components would fail so thats how they made the money


18 posted on 07/29/2016 3:36:19 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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"I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.. it’s impossible to put down!"
19 posted on 07/29/2016 3:36:27 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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The great astrophysicist Halton Arp has explained all of this. The problem is that the red-shift theory is wrong, meaning all mainstream cosmology is wrong.

Wrong cosmology leads to the absurd BS referenced in the headline.


20 posted on 07/29/2016 3:36:49 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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