J2157: One of the largest known black holes has turned out to have an appetite to match its prodigious size-- eats one sun per day. ByArfa Javaid. Jul 3, 2020, 21:03 IST. Black hole.

A massive black hole named J2157 is the fastest growing in the universe. It’s 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 bloated supermassive black hole has an equally bloated name, QSO SMSS J215728.21-360215.1, or J2157-3602 for short. At 12 billion light-years away, it’s not close, so we’re observing this ...

J2157 is “about 8,000 times bigger than the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way,” astronomer Christopher Onken of Australian National University told Science Alert.

A study published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for the first time measured just how large the universe's fastest-growing black hole is. The hole itself, named ...

Behold, the great and powerful black hole with the catchy name J2157. If it came close enough to our Solar System, how fast would it destroy us?" What If. What If a Black Hole Ate the Sun?

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

If the black hole at the center of the Milky Way wanted to grow as big as J2157, it would have to consume two thirds of the stars in the galaxy.

A massive black hole named J2157 is the fastest growing in the universe. It’s 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.

The yawning void known as J2157 eats stars like ours for breakfast. Perhaps every breakfast.

A massive black hole named J2157 is the fastest growing in the universe. It’s 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.

A massive black hole named J2157 is the fastest growing in the universe. It’s 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.