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Fastest-growing black hole in the universe eats the equivalent of one sun per day.

Astronomers have come across a monstrously large black hole named as J 2 1 5 7.
Everyday , it consumes gas and dust equivalent to the mass of our sun , which is making it the fastest-growing black hole in the universe.
For their new study, astronomers turned to ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile to get a more accurate assessment of the black hole‘s mass. The researchers already knew they were dealing with a black hole of epic proportions.

The black hole is 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth and 8,000 times bigger than the black hole of Sagittarius A , which is at the centre of the Milky Way.
“If the Milky Way’s black hole wanted to grow that fat, it would have to swallow two-thirds of all the stars in our galaxy,”
“How much black holes can swallow depends on how much mass they already have.  

So, this Black Hole which is devouring matter at such a high rate, it could become a new record holder.
Although black holes can not be imaged directly because they don’t let light escape, J 2 1 5 7 is actually classed as a quasar, or “quasi-stellar radio source”, which are extremely bright objects powered by black holes.
The bright signal of the quasar is formed by particles of dust and gas accreting around the edge of the supermassive black hole that are accelerated away at almost the speed of light. Practically, the black hole acts like an extremely powerful natural particle accelerator.

If this black hole was at the centre of the Milky Way, it would appear in Earth’s skies 10 times brighter than a full moon and It would make life nearly impossible on Earth with the huge amounts of X-rays that emanate from this massive black hole.

Luckily for us, the black hole is located many billions of light-years away. But this also means that astronomers are measuring J 2 1 5 7’s gravitational influence as it appeared in the distant past when the universe was still very young.
“We’re seeing it at a time when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old, less than 10 percent of its current age,”
“It’s the biggest black hole that’s been weighed in this early period of the Universe.”

“Is this galaxy one of the behemoths of the early Universe, or did the black hole just swallow up an extraordinary amount of its surroundings? We’ll have to keep digging to figure that out.”