Wait what?

This thing is so bright it is hard to get one’s mind around.  Quasars are those super bright distant galaxies with very unusual properties.  Apparently scientists have discovered a super distant one that emits an enormous amount of infrared light.  This surprised a lot of people and here is a bit more on the name of this incredible formation:

W2246-0526 is what is known as a quasar, some of the most active and energetic objects in the universe. They generally form when two galaxies collide, and the black holes in the centre of these galaxies become either a binary black hole, or merge to form one supermassive black hole.

At a distance of 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, and just one billion years younger than the universe, W2246-0526 remained unknown until May of last year, when its discovery was published. For such a luminous object, that might seem strange, but its luminosity isn’t the only thing that makes W2246-0526 special. It is also a rare formation known as a Hot DOG, or Hot, Dust-Obscured Galaxy.

They only found this crazy quasar in 2015 so there is a lot more  observation to take place.  What else do you think they will learn?

Let’s find out more about the properties of this mysterious quasar on page 2

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