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 “ultramassive black hole” (that’s literally a class of black hole), dubbed J2157-3602, was discovered in 2018 and given an initial weight of 20 billion solar masses—a solar mass is a ...

Observations show that J2157-3602 is the size of about 20 billion suns, and it’s growing at a rate of 1 percent every million years. Every two days, this black hole devours a mass equivalent to ...

The hole itself, named J2157, was discovered in 2018 by astronomers with the Australian National University (ANU).

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

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 ...

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 ...