Hungriest Black Hole Eating One Sun A Day Discovered | J2157 | Wee Science

Researchers at the Australian National University studied the fastest growing supermassive black hole known as J2157. This biggest black hole is now known to be 34 billion times the mass of our Sun. J2157 is the fastest-growing black hole in the known Universe. Its event horizon has a radius of 670 astronomical units which is comparable to the distance between the Sun and Neptune multiplied by 22. J2157 holds the title of the hungriest black hole we know. To stay in good shape it gobbles up matter at a rate of about one Sun per day. It sits at a safe distance of 12.5 billion light-years away from us Which means we observe it when the Universe was just 10% of its current age. Since that ancient time, it has likely grown even bigger perhaps absorbing many other black holes. No matter how big and scary J2157 is. We're pretty safe here

This Hungriest black hole can eat one sun a day. Black Holes form when big stars explode in a supernova. The most common black holes called the stellar ones are only 16 km (10 mi) in diameter. But they have at least ten times more mass than our Sun. All that mass compressed into such a small diameter makes them extremely dense.

Credits: NASA

[zachhobby]

"we're pretty safe here" damn that's somehow not reassuring LOL

[seal]

Where does it find these suns? It's event horizon is about orbit of Neptune. But interstellar distance is much more then this. Maybe in the past the distance was other then now.

[jebiron]

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