Australian researchers discover the fastest-growing black hole of the last 9 billion years

Black holes are the densest, most mysterious objects in the universe. These super-compressed objects are millions or billions of times larger than our own Sun, with gravitational pulls so great that not even light can escape.

But not all black holes are created equal. Some are larger than others and, while they all absorb the matter around them, some grow faster.

Led by researchers at the Australian National University, an international team has found the fastest-growing black hole of the last 9 billion years. The discovery was published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

It’s really been a lot of fun to look at photographic plates from 1901 that have pictures of this very black hole about as bright as we see it now. This shows it is not a transient phenomenon. It’s been going on for quite a long time. It’s been fun to build in that historical aspect to this cutting-edge research

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