Giant black hole in the universe eats a sun every day Abroad

Researchers at Australian National University have studied the black hole. The object, called J2157, is 8,000 times the size of the black hole in the center of our Milky Way. “Our” black hole should swallow up two-thirds of all stars in the Milky Way to grow the size of J2157.

J2157 is so far away from us in the universe that we see the black hole during the early years of the universe. “We see it when the universe is only 1.2 billion years old, less than 10 percent of its current age,” say the researchers. It is unknown how black holes could get so big so early in history.

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