NASA Astronomers Found Water Vapor 140 Trillion Times Earth's Oceans Around Quasar Black Hole

3 articles · Updated · Boy Genius Report · Jun 12

A quasar black hole 12 billion light-years from Earth was found surrounded by enough water vapor to fill Earth's oceans 140 trillion times.
NASA astronomers reported the vapor in 2011, showing that water exists in deep space not only as ice on comets or planets but also as gas around extreme cosmic objects.
The water is vapor rather than liquid, and scientists still do not know why such a huge reservoir formed around the quasar.
The finding underscores how much remains unknown about black holes and the wider universe, even as observations keep overturning common assumptions about space.

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