Astrophysicists Find The Brightest Galaxy Of The Universe, As Bright As 300 Trillion Suns

In a breakthrough discovery, astrophysicists at NASA have found the most luminous galaxy of the universe that is as bright as 300 trillion suns. The galaxy was located using data whipped up by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

The newly discovered galaxy, called WISE J224607.57-052635.0, will dramatically change forever the way we view the universe, NASA said in a statement.

"We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution," NASA said.

According to researchers, the immense black holes nestled at the center of the galaxy are for the extraordinary phenomenon.

 "Supermassive black holes draw gas and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light... The light is blocked by surrounding cocoons of dust. As the dust heats up, it radiates infra-red light," NASA explained.

Finding black holes in the deep space is extremely rare. "Because light from the galaxy hosting the black hole has traveled 12.5 billion years to reach us, astronomers are seeing the object as it was in the distant past." NASA added, "The black hole was already billions of times the mass of our sun when our universe was only a tenth of its present age of 13.8 billion years," NASA further added in the press release.

Findings of the study were published in the May issue of The Astrophysical Journal.