The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, a study ...

Researchers now have a better understanding of the black hole known as J2157 and its gluttonous behavior. The fastest-growing black hole in the universe is 34 billion times the mass of our sun and ...