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Posted on 07/04/2020 9:07:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
(CNN)The fastest-growing black hole in the universe is 34 billion times the mass of our sun and feasts on a meal the equivalent of our sun each day, according to a new study.
This massive, hungry black hole was first identified and studied by researchers in May 2018. Previously, they believed it consumed the mass equivalent to our sun every two days. Now, they have a better understanding of this monster black hole and its gluttonous behavior.
The study published Wednesday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The black hole is known as J2157 and exists more than 12 billion light-years back in the distant universe. Astronomers are trying to understand how such massive black holes could evolve during the early days of the universe. The researchers continue to search for more massive black holes like this one to understand how they have grown.
"It's the biggest black hole that's been weighed in this early period of the Universe," said Christopher Onken, lead study author and research fellow at the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in a statement. "We're seeing it at a time when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old, less than 10 per cent of its current age."
It dwarfs the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* in our own Milky Way galaxy.
"The black hole's mass is about 8,000 times bigger than the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way," Onken said. "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."
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Tell me something I didn’t know about Stacey Abrams......................................OH, you said Hole not HO...........................Never Mind.
Is J2157 a code name for Biden’s selection for a VP?.
“feasts on a meal the equivalent of our sun each day”
But if it’s 12 billion light years away, that means that we only know what it was doing 12 billion years ago. For all we know it’s been on Ultra SlimFast for 11 billion years, and is skinnier than Tommy Lasorda.
Thought for a moment this was about the queen of the Golden Corral rodeo, Stacy Abrams.
OK, so if this thingy had this huge appetite 12 Billion Years ago, how close is it to eating us alive?
Right- totally wrong- right - take you pick lol
It started out as a goverment on a small planet voting for reparations.
YOU'RE WELCOME!
Lol... I too thought of the Wookie...
CNN has a contributor that is an authority on black holes, Don Lemon.
Racist... Lol
Yowza! WAY above my head, but thanks, FRiend!
It’s obviously a galactic harmonic convergence with the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. Anybody can see that.
Wow, how can it suck in one star every day? Think of the distances to the nearest star to us. That is just staggering beyond belief.
“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.”
Yes, Michelle Obama jokes would not be appropriate here. But Stacey Abrams is absolutely fair game!
Wouldn’t it be “Hole of Absence of Color”?
Of course, then the SJWs and BLMs would be pissed that Color is getting dissed.
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