Hubble discovers a brighter quasar at the beginning of the universe and loses his best camera

The Hubble Space Telescope operates without one of its best cameras after a hardware problem that forced it to shut down the main systems. According to information revealed by the NASA Space Agency, the camera has stopped working Wednesday (09), but three other instruments are still operational.

The update was posted on Hubble's Twitter and only one Scientists and astronomers revealed that the telescope had uncovered the most brilliant quasar ever detected early in the Universe. The J043947.08 + 163415.7 is interesting because of its incredibly high mbad and its young age, with only 850 million years after the Big Bang.

"We have been searching for such an object for a long time," Our calculations show that there are probably no more brilliant quasars in the primordial and even modern universe, "said Xiaohui Fan of The University of Arizona

This feat was made possible by the curvature of the space generated by a galaxy located eight billion light-years from Earth, as you can see it in the animation below.The team had to find a gravitational lens that distorts the fabric of the space and allows to see astronomical objects far and far away. this, Hubble can move his lenses and photograph the object behind another galaxy located 12.8 billion years from Earth, which finally allows to observe the object. [19659002] J0439 + 1634 [Thunderbird] is unique for several reasons, being a set of elements; there is a black hole in the center producing nearly 600 trillion times more light and radiation than the Sun, and its estimated mbad is 430 million times larger than our star and may even be larger

. is that gas clouds show surprisingly fast growth of stars, being three times faster than that found in the Milky Way and newly formed galaxies.

The Hubble account on Twitter was updated yesterday (09), revealing that at 5 pm. : 23 UTC (15:24 in Brazil, by the official time of Brasilia), one of the cameras of the telescope stopped working because of problems related to the material. It was reported that Hubble would continue to record and obtain data from other unbadigned sensors and that the anomaly was currently under investigation.