Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Astronomers have discovered in the constellation Virgo the ancient galaxy BOSS-EUVLG1, a supermassive black hole in which "sleeps", but the galaxy itself emits record-breaking ultraviolet radiation. The article with the research results was accepted for publication by the scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

"New stars in this galaxy are forming at a tremendous rate. This is happening there a thousand times faster than in the Milky Way, despite the thirtyfold difference in size. This is comparable to how quickly stars burst into the brightest infrared galaxies. However, in the case of BOSS-EUVLG1, we also saw their ultraviolet glow, since there is almost no dust in it, "said one of the authors of the work, Ismael Perez-Fournon, an employee of the Canary Institute of Astrophysics.

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