{"id":192788,"date":"2024-07-11T05:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/astronomers-find-the-largest-water-reservoir-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-07-11T05:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:22:28","slug":"astronomers-find-the-largest-water-reservoir-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/astronomers-find-the-largest-water-reservoir-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find the largest water reservoir in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-the-largest-water-reservoir-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense collection of water, equivalent to 140 trillion times the water in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/gigantic-underground-ocean-contains-3x-more-water-than-all-surface-oceans-combined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earth\u2019s oceans<\/a>, surrounds a quasar over 12 billion light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe environment around this quasar is very unique in that it\u2019s producing this huge mass of water,\u201d stated Matt Bradford from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laborator <\/a>y. \u201cIt\u2019s another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.\u201d Bradford leads one of the teams behind this groundbreaking discovery. Their research, partially funded by NASA, appears in the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1106.4301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quasars are powered by enormous black holes that consume surrounding gas and dust, emitting vast amounts of energy. The quasar in question, APM 08279+5255, harbors a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/supermassive-black-hole-winds-can-reshape-galaxies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black hole<\/a> 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces energy equivalent to a thousand trillion suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense collection of water, equivalent to 140 trillion times the water in Earth\u2019s oceans, surrounds a quasar over 12 billion light-years away. \u201cThe environment around this quasar is very unique in that it\u2019s producing this huge mass of water,\u201d [\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-192788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192788","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=192788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}