beecee Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 https://phys.org/news/2018-08-quiet-sunday-night-supermassive-black.html Earlier this year, on a quiet Sunday night, my colleague Jack and I found the fastest-growing supermassive black hole in the known universe. We were fortunate to be part of the team that made one of the greatest discoveries in astronomy this year. This supermassive black hole, or quasar, is 20 billion times the mass of our Sun and is 12.5 billion light years away from Earth. It expands 1 per cent every million years and it devours a mass equivalent to our Sun every two days. Officially, it is called SMSS J215728.21-360215.1, but we call it the hungry monster. The 'we' that made the discovery was a small team led by Australian National University astronomer Dr. Christian Wolf and his team, and included two postgraduate students from the University of Melbourne, Jack Hon and myself. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-quiet-sunday-night-supermassive-black.html#jCp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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