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On November 26, 2012 scientist discover an object in outer space called a quasar. A quasar is an extremely bright galactic centre powered by super massive black holes. Many blast huge amounts of material out into their host galaxies which play a very big and important role in the evolution of our galaxies. No theorist predicted a quasar being this large. Scientist have realized that this outflow is located about a thousand light-years away from the large black hole at the heart of the quasar. The mass of the quasar is about 400 times the mass of the sun and is traveling away from the sun at the rate about 8,000 kilometers per second every year. "We couldn't have got the high-quality data to make this discovery without the VLT's X-shooter spectrograph," says Benoit Borguet. Benoit Borquet also added they are capable to view the regions around this quasar in great depth for the first time ever. Benoit and his team will continue to watch this quasar’s every move and continue to study its actions to better to understand how these wonderful things live outer space.

European Southern Observatory - ESO. "Biggest black hole blast discovered: Most powerful quasar outflow ever found." // ScienceDaily //, 26 Nov. 2012. Web. 28 Nov. 2012