Researchers find 'hungry' black hole that gobbles up one Sun every day

Shedding some more light on titanic mystery surrounding one of most interesting celestial objects, a new research led by Australian National University (ANU) w tells us just how massive fastest-growing black hole in universe actually is.

This giant black hole — kwn as J2157 — was discovered by same research team in 2018. It is 34 billion times mass of our Sun and gobbles on nearly equivalent of one Sun every day, according to Dr. Christopher Onken and his colleagues.

" black hole's mass is also about 8,000 times bigger than black hole in centre of Milky Way. If Milky Way's black hole wanted to grow that fat, it would have to swallow two-thirds of all stars in our galaxy... We're seeing it at a time when universe was only 1.2 billion years old, less than 10 percent of its current . It's biggest black hole that's been weighed in this early period of universe," Dr. Onken said.

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A new record holder

Exactly how black holes grew so big so early in life-span of universe is still a mystery, but team is w searching for more black holes in hope y might provide some clues.

"We knew we were onto a very massive black hole when we realised its fast growth rate," said team member Dr. Fuyan Bian, a staff astromer at European Sourn Observatory (ESO). "How much black holes can swallow depends on how much mass y already have. So, for this one to be devouring matter at such a high rate, we thought it could become a new record holder. And w we kw," Dr. Fuyan Bian added.

team, including researchers from University of Arizona, used ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile to accurately measure black hole's mass. "With such an ermous black hole, we're also excited to see what we can learn about galaxy in which it's growing," Dr. Onken said.

Dr. Onken said added, "is this galaxy one of behemoths of early universe, or did black hole just swallow up an extraordinary amount of its surroundings? We'll have to keep digging to figure that out."

(With ANI inputs) (Im Source: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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