Water found in the universe, and it’s the largest reservoir imaginable: 140 trillion times that of the Earth-Çkemi News
Credits: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
In a new realm of the universe, where astronomy helps navigate unfathomable depths of creation a remarkable achievement of the most outstanding water reservoir has been discovered. It has as much water as 100 trillion times of all the oceans on the Earth and it is situated around an active quasar called APM 08279+5255 some 12 billion light years away.
A glance into the cosmic universe: Quasar APM 08279+5255’s massive water cloud
APM 08279+5255 is not a typical quasar. A supermassive black hole which lies at its center weighs 20 billion suns, thus classifying it among the strongest known objects in the universe. The black hole has an enormous amount of water vapor, which extends several hundred light-years away. The energy out...








