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 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 ...

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.

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 ...