{"id":183087,"date":"2024-02-19T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quasar-with-black-hole-at-its-center-may-be-brightest-object-in-the-universe-astronomers-say"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:23:58","slug":"quasar-with-black-hole-at-its-center-may-be-brightest-object-in-the-universe-astronomers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quasar-with-black-hole-at-its-center-may-be-brightest-object-in-the-universe-astronomers-say","title":{"rendered":"Quasar with black hole at its center may be brightest object in the universe, astronomers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quasar-with-black-hole-at-its-center-may-be-brightest-object-in-the-universe-astronomers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a ferocious place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}