National Geographic: In a galaxy 12 billion light-years away resides the most distant and most massive cloud of water yet seen in the universe, astronomers say.
Weighing in at 40 billion times the mass of Earth, the giant cloud of mist swaddles a type of actively feeding supermassive black hole known as a quasar.
Among the brightest and most energetic objects in the universe, quasars are black holes at the centers of galaxies that are gravitationally consuming surrounding disks of material while burping back out......
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Black Hole Hosts Universe’s Most Massive Water Cloud
Posted by National Geographic: Misty Reservoir Would Fill 140 Trillion Earth Oceans, Scientists Say. on July 27th, 2011
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