In a Galaxy 12 billion light years further away saw the cloud and the most massive of the water were observed in the universe, astronomers say.

With a weight of 40 billion times the mass of the Earth, the huge cloud of fog swaddling a form of active power Supermassive Black Hole known as a quasar.

Among the most brightest and most energetic of the universe, quasars are black holes in the center of galaxies that are gravitationally disks consume surrounding material, while belching jets back of the powerful energy.

"As the volume of material is consumed by the central black hole, it releases energy in the form of X-rays and infrared radiation, which can in turn heat the surrounding material, resulting in water vapor observed "said study co-author Eric Murphy, an astronomer with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.

Steam to work around this particular Quasar is enough water to "fill in all the oceans of the Earth more than 140 billion times, has a lot of water."

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Murphy and colleagues have discovered a black hole wet with a spectrograph attached to the ten-meter Caltech submillimeter follow-up group of the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The team also found that the cloud is swimming unusually warm water in the other gas and dust around the black hole.

In fact there is enough gas and dust that the black hole can reach six times its current size, more than 120 billion times the mass of our sun, says Murphy.

Perhaps even more surprising is that the colossal cosmic reservoir formed when the universe was only 1.6 billion years. (Associated "Black Holes found near Immaculate Conception universe.")

"For me, the most exciting aspect of this discovery, it shows how the water is ubiquitous even one tenth of the current age of the universe," said Murphy.

"The fact that we found a large amount of [water] at this early stage in the universe, is another sign that the molecules and the chemical enrichment of galaxies may have taken place so soon after the Big Bang. "

Astronomers hope to use the knowledge to examine how large amounts of water in the world of young people may have acted as an efficient cooling of interstellar dust medium, and fine gas between the stars, perhaps star formation and affect the evolution of galaxies like our Milky Way.

A document that describes the aqueous quasars has been accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters.