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What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

Vsauce · 3 min read

The brightest sustained objects in the universe aren’t stars or even the brief flash of a gamma-ray burst—they’re quasars, powered by black holes...

Absolute MagnitudeQuasarsBlack Holes

Why Quasars are so Awesome | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Quasars are the universe’s most luminous signposts of supermassive black holes feeding—brief, intense bursts that can reshape entire galaxies and...

QuasarsSupermassive Black HolesAccretion Disks

How Black Holes Kill Galaxies

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Supermassive black holes appear to be the main mechanism that shuts down star formation in the biggest galaxies—turning them “red and dead”—and the...

Black HolesGalaxy FormationQuenching

The NEW Ultimate Energy Limit of the Universe

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

A newly observed quasar, labeled LD 568, is shining about 4,000 times brighter than the theoretical “Eddington limit” for how fast a black hole can...

Eddington LimitSuper-Eddington AccretionAccretion Discs