The universe’s largest water resource, which is 4,000 times more water than the Milky Way, is a supermassive black hole in the distance that is the size of 140 trillion seas.
This quantity of water was found by two teams of astronomers 12 billion light-years away, where it can be seen as vapor dispersed over a large area of space.
The reservoir was found in a quasar’s gaseous region, which is a brilliant, compact region near the galaxy’s center powered by a black hole. This finding suggests that water may have been in the universe at its inception.
Even though experts are not shocked, water has never been found this far out. This mass of water existed when the universe was just 1.6 billion years old because it took the light from the quasar, namely the APM 08279+5255 quasar in the constellation Lynx, 12 billion years to reach Earth.
One group used the Z-Spec equipment at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii, and the other used the Plateau de Bure Interferometer in the French Alps.
These sensors can detect trace gases (or significant amounts of water vapor) in the early cosmos since they can detect millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.
The discovery of numerous spectral fingerprints of water in the quasar gave researchers with the information they needed to establish the reservoir’s massive size.
