{"id":183619,"date":"2024-02-25T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-mass-of-17-billion-suns-growing-black-hole-is-the-most-luminous-object-ever-observed-by-astronomers"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:25:09","slug":"a-mass-of-17-billion-suns-growing-black-hole-is-the-most-luminous-object-ever-observed-by-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-mass-of-17-billion-suns-growing-black-hole-is-the-most-luminous-object-ever-observed-by-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"A mass of 17 billion suns: Growing black hole is the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mass-of-17-billion-suns-growing-black-hole-is-the-most-luminous-object-ever-observed-by-astronomers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-024-02195-x\">A new study<\/a> published in <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i> describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than the sun every single day.<\/p>\n<p>It has been known about for several decades, but since it is so bright, astronomers assumed it must be a nearby star. Only recent observations revealed its extreme distance and luminosity.<\/p>\n<p>The object has been dubbed J0529-4351. This name simply refers to its coordinates on the celestial sphere\u2014a way of projecting the objects in the sky onto the inside of a sphere. It is a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/esahubble.org\/wordbank\/quasar\/\">object called a quasar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than the sun every single day. It has been known about for several decades, but since it is so bright, astronomers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183619","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}