{"id":183093,"date":"2024-02-19T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/brightest-quasar-ever-seen-is-powered-by-black-hole-that-eats-a-sun-a-day"},"modified":"2024-02-19T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:22:23","slug":"brightest-quasar-ever-seen-is-powered-by-black-hole-that-eats-a-sun-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/brightest-quasar-ever-seen-is-powered-by-black-hole-that-eats-a-sun-a-day","title":{"rendered":"Brightest quasar ever seen is powered by black hole that eats a \u2018sun a day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brightest-quasar-ever-seen-is-powered-by-black-hole-that-eats-a-sun-a-day2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered quasar is a real record-breaker. Not only is it the brightest quasar ever seen, but it\u2019s also the brightest astronomical object in general ever seen. It\u2019s also powered by the hungriest and fastest-growing black hole ever seen \u2014 one that consumes the equivalent of over one sun\u2019s mass a day.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns, has evaded astronomers for over 40 years because of its incredible luminosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered quasar is a real record-breaker. Not only is it the brightest quasar ever seen, but it\u2019s also the brightest astronomical object in general ever seen. It\u2019s also powered by the hungriest and fastest-growing black hole ever seen \u2014 one that consumes the equivalent of over one sun\u2019s mass a day. The quasar, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183093","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}