It was discovered the brightest galaxy. Equivalent to 300 million … – Daily News – Lisbon

NASA announced the discovery of the most luminous galaxy, with light equivalent to more than 300 trillion suns.

The galaxy, says the US space agency in a statement, belongs to a new class of celestial bodies recently discovered by WISE infrared telescope, the “extremely luminous infrared galaxies”.

The galaxy, cataloged as WISE J224607.57-052635.0, may have a black hole at its center, the which is rare in a distant galaxy like this.

Since the galaxy light traveled 12.5 thousand million years to reach the current time, astronomers see the body as it was in the distant past. The black hole would have a billion times the mass of the Sun when the universe was one-tenth of its present age, about 14 billion years.

“We are observing a lot of intense phase of the evolution of galaxy, “Chao-Wei Tsai said, NASA, and lead author of the study, which is published on Friday in The Astrophysical Journal.