Largest ever mass of cosmic water discovered

Turns out water has been present in the universe for most of its history. Astronomers studying a distant quasar — a supermassive black hole actively feeding on gaseous material — detected the presence of water vapor in the cold material surrounding the quasar.

Water vapor has been discovered elsewhere/when in the universe, particularly in water masers emanating from objects as varied as the Saturn system to far-distant galaxies, but this latest observation pushes the earliest detection of water back to a mere 1.6 billion years after the big bang. It’s also the largest mass of water ever discovered — about “140 trillion times more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined.”

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  1. This is an amazing discovering.it all cornfirms the creation of God,it took God six days to creat the univers but it’s taken scientics lots of years to To fine out .

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