3. The Ridiculously Luminous Galaxy
(pic by NASA)
This thing is bright…like it is pretty impossible to get your mind around it bright:
NASA’s space telescope WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) has found the brightest galaxy yet, glowing with the fury of more than 300 trillion Suns. The photons from galaxy WISE J224607.57-052635.0 traveled 12.5 billion years to bring us their message, supplying us with an image of the universe at one-tenth of its current age.
Let’s check out the tiny galaxy with a huge black hole on the next page
