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Frenzy-Feeding Black Hole Makes Galaxy Most Luminous “暴食”的黑洞造就了最闪亮的星系 Astronomers have discovered the most luminous galaxy ever found, shining with the equivalence of 300 trillion suns from the far side of the visible universe. But almost all of that light is being produced by the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole—not by its stars. The enlightening finding is in The Astrophysical Journal. 天文学家发现了有史以来人类发现的最明亮的星系——在可见宇宙的另一边，它闪烁着相当于300万亿个太阳光的光辉。但该星系几乎所有的光均来自它中央的超大质量的黑洞——而非它的恒星。这一极具启发性的发现发表于《天体物理学杂志》。 Black holes are black because light itself cannot escape once falling in. But a feeding bl