article_snippet: The image looks uncannily like an eye in the sky - such as the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings .
article_snippet: Black holes that fit this description are called active galactic nuclei (AGN), and Black holes that fit this description
article_snippet: In February it was revealed that a supermassive black hole 12 million times larger than the sun and powering ‘the brightest lighthouse in the distant universe’ has been discovered.
article_snippet: The extraordinary object is at the centre of a quasar - an intensely powerful galactic radiation source - with a million billion times the sun energy output.
article_snippet: The nature of quasars has remained a mystery since The nature of quasars were discovered in 1963.
article_snippet: The new object, named SDSS J0100+2802, is 12.8 billion light years from Earth and was formed 900 million years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe.
article_snippet: But the brightness of IRAS F11119+3257's active nucleus - which is responsible for about 80 per cent of the galaxy's overall radiation - suggested otherwise.
article_snippet: This is a red-filter image of IRAS F11119+3257 (inset) from a telescope at the University of Hawaii's, showing faint features that may be tidal debris, a sign of a galaxy merger.
article_snippet: The background is a wider view of the region from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . '
article_snippet: These are not like normal spiral or elliptical galaxies.
article_snippet: Two galaxies collided with each other, and it's now a single object.