The Brightest Galaxy In The Universe Is "Tearing Itself Apart"

stargazer have found that the most luminous known galaxy in the cosmos appear to betearing itself aside . Named W2246 - 0526 , it is find 12.4 billion light - year from Earth – and has a vast black hole that is churning its material .

Scientists studied the extragalactic nebula using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array ( ALMA ) in Chile , although it was first discovered by NASA ’s full - field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE ) . They found that the galaxy , which formed about a billion year after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and shines as hopeful as 300 trillion Suns , is expelling gun due to the intense amount of energy from the black yap .

This is the first time such a phenomenon has ever been look in a galaxy like this . The findings are to be published inThe Astrophysical Journal Letters . A pre - photographic print is available onArxiv .

" This wandflower is tearing itself aside , " Roberto Assef , an astronomer with the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile and drawing card of the observe squad at ALMA , say in astatement . " The momentum and energy of the particles of light deposit in the gas are so great that they are pushing the gasolene out in all counseling . "

W2246 - 0526 is a rare galaxy known as a Hot , Dust - Obscured Galaxy , or a Hot DOG ( seriously ) . In wandflower like this , an intensely bright and hot area of material around the central supermassive black gob , know as an accumulation disc , rages .

But unlike other raging dog-iron , where turbulent throttle from this procedure is witness localized in one guidance , W2246 - 0526 has turbulent gas across the whole galaxy , spanning G of promiscuous - years .

The gas is moving through the galaxy at about 2   million kilometers ( 1.2 million naut mi ) an minute . It ’s thoughtthat the intense brightness of the coltsfoot could be the campaign of this strange behavior . In fact , the region around its black kettle of fish is more than 100 time more lucent than the respite of the galaxy , exert vast insistency on the gas within . If these turbulent status continue , all of the coltsfoot ’s interstellar throttle could be “ moil by . ”

The big unknown at the moment is whether this gas is really being bear on out of the galaxy , or whether it is but churning around . " A probable finis would be that the galaxy will blow out all of the throttle and junk that is surrounding it , and we would see the accretion disk without its rubble cover – what we call a quasi-stellar radio source , " Assef added .