“…telescope discovers blisteringly hot ‘extreme galaxies’ 100 trillion times brighter than our sun – and millions of ‘supermassive’ black holes..”

“…A Nasa space telescope has uncovered millions of previously unseen supermassive black holes – and around a thousand ‘extreme’ galaxies that can outshine our sun by a factor of 100 trillion.

The discoveries were previously obscured by layers of space dust, but Nasa’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, known as WISE -

- can see in wavelengths correlated with heat – helping it to reveal some of the brightest objects in the known Universe…”

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WISE telescope discovers blisteringly hot ‘extreme galaxies’ 100 trillion times brighter than our sun and millions of ‘supermassive’ black holes – Science – News – The Independent.

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