Zooming in on the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351

This video takes us on a journey from our Milky Way far into the sky to the quasar J0529-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy, in the direction of the Pictor constellation. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the Universe to date. It is so far away that its light has taken over 12 billion years to reach us. The supermassive black hole powering J0529-4351 is the fastest-growing black hole ever discovered. The video ends with an artist’s impression of this record-breaking object; all other visuals shown are real astronomical images.
Credit:
ESO/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey/M. Kornmesser. Music: Astral Electronic
For more details on this discovery, check: eso2402 (www.eso.org/public/news/eso2402/)

[@IMRANnet]

The dichotomy... how pathetically insignificant we are in the universe, and yet how incredible we are as we try to explore and understand that very universe and its origins.

[@andreweppink4498]

And yet, l read the Big Bang Singularity was about a football sized. WHAT density!!!

[@SSMLivingPictures]

Very interesting that it is record breaking when so many things look brighter. I think I understand, but still working on it

[@davidhoffman2311]

Those things that look brighter only do so because of how close they are to us, such as the stars in our galaxy that are located within only a maximum of like 70,000 light years away us. Compare that to this quasar, which is an entire 12,000,000,000 (12 billion) light years from where we are. That means it takes an entire 12 billion years for the light from this quasar to travel to our planet, which I cannot understate just how far away that is. You can think of this from the perspective of flashlights. Let’s say you have two flash lights, one of them shines brighter than the other by about double the brightness. Now, if you were to look at the less powerful flashlight only 1 cm away from your eye and then compare that to the stronger one’s brightness when it’s located 100 meters away… Which one would appear more bright for you? The one that’s only 1cm from your eyes, ofc. Although, even that example is downplaying it since the distance difference is by a multiple of billions on a cosmic scale. It’d be far more accurate to say that the object is the most luminous we’ve ever seen in the night sky, I believe.

[@el_benja]

This videos never stops to amaze me. My God, we’re so tiny

[@RickLegg]

Are they sure it is a quasar and not a Magnavox? Old people like me will get that one…😂

[@ryanlee5887]

Don’t be absurd. It’s clearly a Zenith.

[@johnnoonansr.5974]

Looks like a "works in a drawer" model to me.

[@gregorystaffon]

If they adjust the rabbit ears I think it will be clearer...

[@robfranzwa3334]

@@gregorystaffon we may need to wrap some tinfoil around them for even better reception!

[@edstephens6671]

In the beginning Quasar was Motorola TV

[@jujum635]

Thank you for sharing with us 😄🌌🌠🌟 wouaw 😍

[@user-hg3wf1vq6o]

12 billion light years away??!!! Amazing

[@floxhoa]

Fortunaly for us 😅😂

[@KIsADragon]

Sky is so fascinating for a very big range of genius classes ranging from scientists, astronomers, astrologers, reseachers, etc... And the beauty is the more we find and explore we gets only the sky....

[@ecu4321]

the level of zoom in this is amazing!

[@el_benja]

Astounding.

[@JoelEsler]

iPhone 15 baby.

[@AbCd-kr4oe]

😂​@@JoelEsler

[@Arsenic71]

My god, it's full of stars...

[@melpomdeun6257]

Easy there Commander Bowen. It’s full of more than that!

[@davidforbes4392]

Astronaut David Bowman in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Thanks for the memory.

[@SSMLivingPictures]

Someone had to say it

[@drjojo5551]

It’s an OLD……TIRED…….CLICHE!!!!!! BESIDES…….it’s a crummy…..Hollywood piece of garbage!!!

[@liam3284]

it eats stars for breakfast

[@user-tm2js2cb4h]

Thank you. That was great.

[@jameswebbdiscoveries]

It would be interesting to see Webb's findings of this object.

[@craighoffman6876]

If humanity really and truly is the only "intelligent" life in the incomprehensibly vast universe, we have a heavy responsibility to simply do a lot better.

[@garyfilmer382]

Fantastic! It won’t be long before we find another ‘brightest quasar in the universe’, new discoveries by the JWST come in thick and fast! These are exciting astronomical times!

[@andresinchausti3841]

man, the universe is big...

[@xReDmOrNiNgStArx]

distance between me and my crush!

[@wooddogg8]

Don't give up!! The chances of closing THAT distance are far better 😀😀❤❤

[@xReDmOrNiNgStArx]

😂@@wooddogg8

[@brendamatsu6367]

Just mind boggling numbers. We are seemingly a speck of sand in a black ocean of unending universe.

[@sareenavelhot]

by the time it starts journey towards us, milkyway also not born yet. now 12 billion years elapsed

[@michaelweaver4718]

What is the estimated mass of the black hole as it appears in this image, and is there even an estimate of it's current size?

[@Yixuidhalbh]

So i've read that this beast is 500 trillion times brighter than our sun!! Our sun is 10,000 degrees fahrenheit for reference, so it's 5 quadrillion degrees which I didn't even know was a unit of measurement... Absolutely insane. This thing would probably disintegrate our entire galaxy if it came even remotely close to it

[@BiesenbachKlein]

Wundervoll !!!

[@jkyoft78]

So the light we see from this is 12 billion years old? Has anyone come up with a simulation as to what distant places in the universe might look like now if the camera was nearby, in the proximity, say only 1 light year away? In other words, I wonder how these distant places look today, rather than 12 billion years ago?

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Is it 12 billion years ago though ? It's 12 billion years distant, but the universe has been expanding all the while. I wonder......

[@thurmandavide]

Big shock would be all the stars winked out.

[@christophercondrat5371]

Apparently, the accretion disk for that black hole itself is over seven (7) light years in diameter, or about 15,000x the diameter of our solar system. At that distance (1 LY) from it, it'd still be hard to observe - we'd be too close. The size and brightness of this quasar are almost incomprehensible compared to the scales we're used to.

[@Michael-dy2lb]

Not with any certainty because they're so far away, we don't have a good look at them to begin with. However, a galaxy is likely to look like a galaxy even if it's 12 billion years older than it was. The other option is another galaxy will run into it, or several, and there will be a bigger elliptical galaxy in its place. But the galaxy will still be there ... or wherever it was going 12 billion years ago.

[@johnskulavik7116]

If the camera was sending images back it would take likely 12 Billion light years to get here. That still would not let you see the today's status!! The only way for you see how they look today is to be there which is impossible. The radiation would kill you and the black hole would make a very fine noodle out of you as it swallowed you.

[@jones828]

There were few brighter on the video, but what do I know?

[@dynastinae11]

cool

[@neohermitist]

Sounds like taking a trip to Altair IV

[@mccask]

Why the 1970's science fiction sound effects?

[@boba2783]

Fat Larry’s band couldn’t zoom that much

[@signmanmatt]

I love Fat Larry! "Act like you know"

[@CasIsCuriousAboutScience]

Ton 618 needs to cry now

[@arqcarolmachado]

how was this zoom made?

[@ESOobservatory]

This video was created by putting together multiple, real observations of the night sky. The final part shows an artist’s impression of the quasar.

[@user-bs9hc6ip1y]

Что за мелодия, где её найти?

[@floxhoa]

Astral Electronic

[@markvanmechelen7487]

second star to the right and straight on 'til morning

[@rizalriddick1690]

How did you know it was a quarsar?

[@vkobevk]

only quasar can shine like that also they probably find gas disc rotated around something

[@mastershakes]

not a chance that this isn't a multiplayer map

[@BrewMAJret]

Is there such a thing as a reverse big bang? A sudden implosion of an infinite black hole...

[@melpomdeun6257]

There’s been discussion of “The Big Crunch.”

[@fornax333]

So it zooms in on a point like objekt and at the end shows a point like object with no details followed by an Artist's impression that shows what they guess that the object looks like.......

[@williamkruse9222]

Yes. What an acute observation.

[@markharris8502]

And we are told to believe it. Fall in line.

[@dhavzr23]

go read a paper on it, quasars are well understood objects. sorry a short youtube video couldn't give you every detail you wanted.

[@MichaelM366]

Looks like the newest Star Wars movie coming. Nice CGI

[@keltuzed-ul3ol]

Страсти Господне!!

[@user-yg2ye5nx4r]

О... Русские 😅

[@wolkengoe]

Dann muss man wohl.

[@chenchen8173]

一天吃一顆太陽, 120億年, 應該吃太飽_蒸發了

[@jlacko]

Without the artist’s impression, it’s just a dot.

[@beetea6128]

:0

[@sayfanet]

ok, but, the earth is flat

[@melpomdeun6257]

…and we never landed on the moon! …and birds aren’t real!

[@jaguarcap6494]

...and stars are just fireflies!

[@sayfanet]

...and jesus wasnt born in december

[@herrunbekannt7556]

It does not look so bright, I guess the half moon is brighter... 🧐🤔

[@floxhoa]

It's because it is about 12M lightyears from us ;) a distance you can't juste imagine. And because we don't see any relief on the stars map, keep in mind that mostly stars you see around this quazar are probably more and more further from us than him

[@ezxcve]

Ashkually, the one next to it is brighter ☝️🤓

[@signmanmatt]

That's what I thought? Maybe its 100 zillion miles closer and they ran out of zoom?

[@wollam11]

It's many times over closer to us so it appears that way but it isn't so.

[@MyLifeAsLouis]

This Samsung camera zoom is crazy

[@floxhoa]

Samsung Galaxy 😛

[@xpanderino]

what the fuck are we...

[@nfergistink110]

good question

[@wooddogg8]

Stardust, the universe's best hope of understanding it's self. (unless there's advanced aliens, but still good with the stardust thing)

[@el_benja]

A spec of dust floating in the infinite vastness of the universe

[@pmccarty]

Dust. Wind.

[@melpomdeun6257]

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

[@donnaegeler]

Artists rendition. So in other words, a load of bs they are trying to pass off as space.

[@wooddogg8]

It's 12 billion light years away, do you understand anything about telescopes? That's the thing about space... It's huge, probably infinite.

[@melpomdeun6257]

Although not infinite, for humans to reach the edge of the visible expanding universe, humans would need to be immortal. So in practical terms yes, in scientific terms no. As it stands currently, we’d only need travel only faster than 73 km/sec to eventually catch up to universe’s edge.

[@signmanmatt]

I thought the same thing myself...is the last part an artists rendition, or the whole video...how did it zoom past all those stars (each a long way from each other) so quickly. I hope no one is stupid enough to believe what they are seeing is a real telescope zooming...is it?

[@signmanmatt]

I guess it is real...???...It says this in the description...The video ends with an artist’s impression of this record-breaking object; all other visuals shown are real astronomical images.

[@wooddogg8]

@@signmanmatt The zoom is almost certainly a well stitched series of ever larger telescopes, very well done. It's real.

[@Greyteam4291]

No big deal, Biden visited it 10 years ago in a row boat. 😁

[@DogDay7768]

12B light years from earth brightest object J0529 4351

[@89390305]

It's so far. Why the light is not red ?

[@ESOobservatory]

While redshift does indeed change the observed colour of a distant object, the intrinsic colour of the object also plays a role, and quasars are fairly blue. The red object right next to the quasar appears to be a nearby star that is intrinsically red.

[@liam3284]

Because it is far hotter than the sun.

[@drjojo5551]

So just how far is this sucker?????

[@MikeKayK]

12 billion light years