NASA has discovered an unknown object out in space that outshines our entire Milky Way galaxy by over 50 times, this thing is so bright that it radiates more energy than a hundred billion of our suns and NASA has no idea what this massive bright object is.
As massive as this thing is, whatever it is, there is a mystery object in the centre of this massive light producing gas ball that is no larger than 10 miles across, this object is known as a ASAS/SN - 15 LH, this object is twice as luminous as any other object we've ever detected in the universe, brighter than any supernova. So astronomers have been trying to think could this be the result of a supernova? Could it be a the result of a star exploding? Well they're not so sure about that because that would mean this would be the most powerful supernova ever seen. Then they thought this object could be some sort of star called a magnetar but one that's so powerful that it basically breaks the laws of physics.
What the object would look like from an exoplanet that was ten thousand light-years away
Unfortunately this massive light that's surrounding this small 10-mile object can't be seen with the naked eye because it is 3.8 billion light years away but it was located by the all-sky automated survey in Buckeye State Ohio which basically is a project that uses a bunch of small telescopes around the world to detect bright objects in the universe.
This thing is 200 times more powerful than the average supernova, it's five hundred and seventy billion times brighter than our Sun and 20 times brighter than all the stars in our Milky Way galaxy combined. A professor of astronomy at Ohio State said:
'We have to ask how is that even possible, it takes a lot of energy to shine that bright and that energy has to come from somewhere'
There's some other very strange things in our universe that we just don't understand, for instance do you know that there is a part in the universe 12 billion light-years away that has the largest water reservoir? A colossal black hole at the centre of a quasar that contains a hundred and 40 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans which manifests itself in the form of a massive cloud of gas or water vapour that is several hundred light-years in diameter?
Another thing you possibly didn't know about was the fact that there are massive electrical currents moving through space as we speak, the largest of these electrical currents, found only a few years ago by scientists, measured to contain the energy of roughly 1 trillion lightning bolts, again they don't know where it comes from but it's theorised that the lightning is thought to originate from an enormous black hole in the centre of a galaxy. This black hole's huge magnetic field allows it to fire this lightning bolt through the gas and dust surrounding it to a distance of over 150,000 light-years away, which is actually longer than the Milky Way galaxy is from end to end.
large quasar groups
If you want to talk about large unexplainable things in our universe that will help you understand just how small you are there is a structure in space that is so massive that it literally breaks the laws of modern astronomy and physics, that structure is called the LQG or Large Quasar Group, to give you an idea of how massive this thing is the Milky Way galaxy is only 100,000 light years across, so basically if something happens on one end of the Milky Way and we see it in the sky we are actually seeing what happened a hundred thousand years ago, likely before humans even existed.
Now take the size of our galaxy, a hundred thousand light-years and multiply it by 40 to 50,000 and that will give you the size of this large quasar group, this thing is four billion light years across and scientists have absolutely no clue how this gigantic enormous never-ending structure formed, it's a cluster of 74 quasars. Most quasars formed approximately 12 billion years ago and are normally caused by collisions of galaxies merging to form either a supermassive black hole or a binary black hole system, these quasars create a luminosity and a brightness that is again a hundred times greater than that of the Milky Way and scientists have no idea how this thing even exists because they have previously only been aware of clusters that are several hundred million light years across, not four billion, this structure breaks the rules of standard astrophysics since the maximum size of any cosmic structure should only be 1.2 billion light years across.
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