A YouTuber describes it best for laymen as follows:
"In a galaxy 12 billion light-years away resides the most distant and most massive cloud of water yet seen in the universe, astronomers say. Weighing in at 40 billion times the mass of Earth, the giant cloud of mist swaddles a type of actively feeding supermassive black hole known as a quasar."A clip from today's article:
The celestial “hand of God” is a nebula more than 17,000 light-years away. What is seen today was produced as a star exploded in a supernova, ejecting an “enormous cloud of material.” The remaining pulsar (not visible itself in the photograph) is now known as PSR B1509-58 (B1509). Small by space standards, the pulsar measures only about 12 miles across. The rapidly spinning expelled material appears blue in the photo and was imaged in high-energy X-rays by the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory.” NASA Telescope Captures New Hand of God Image
