Astronomers recently revealed that they’ve found a particularly extreme example.
As bright and massive as it is, the new record-holding quasar was hiding in plain sight.
Astronomers recentlydetectedwhat is now considered the brightest-known object in the universe.
The quasar is so far away that its light takes 12 billion years to reach Earth.
Although around one million quasars have been discovered over the last several decades, detecting them has proven challenging.
Without that data, quasars appear indistinguishable from ordinary stars.
