Astronomers identify record-breaking quasar

A team of Australian researchers identified a quasar named J059-4351, which is powered by a supermassive black hole that is more than 17 billion times the mass of our sun. This quasar, located in a distant galaxy, has a rotating disk around it, resembling a cosmic hurricane. The black hole in this quasar is growing rapidly, consuming the equivalent of a sun per day, making it the fastest-growing one ever known. The researchers reported this discovery using data from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Another report mentioned that the same quasar has a mass 500 trillion times greater than our sun and is 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. Both reports describe the black hole as ferocious.