Researchers Discover a Record-Breaking, Fast-Growing Black Hole

Researchers have discovered one of the fastest growing and largest black holes that is swallowing one sun each day, setting a one-of-its-kind record.
Researchers Discover a Record-Breaking, Fast-Growing Black Hole
Artist’s impression showing the record-breaking quasar J059-4351. ESO/M. Kornmesser
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In a discovery that sounds more like the plot of a science-fiction saga, researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have identified what is currently known as the fastest-growing black hole in the universe.

This colossal entity, with an apparent insatiable appetite, is devouring the equivalent of one sun each day, setting a new record for cosmic enormity and ferocity.