Astronomers Discover a Black Hole , Devouring the Equivalent , of One Earth Per Second.<br />Space.com reports that <br />scientists have detected the <br />fastest-growing black hole ever seen.<br />The black hole has a mass 3 billion <br />times that of the sun and devours the mass <br />equivalent to an entire Earth every second.<br />According to an international research team, <br />the black hole's rapid consumption rate <br />is causing it to grow extremely fast. .<br />The enormous black hole is now 500 times larger <br />than Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole <br />at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.<br />Space.com reports that other, similarly massive black holes , stopped growing billions of years ago. .<br />Now, we want to know <br />why this one is different — <br />did something catastrophic happen?, Christopher Onken, lead researcher at the Research <br />School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian <br />National University (ANU), via Space.com.<br />Perhaps two big galaxies crashed <br />into each other, funneling a whole lot <br />of material onto the black hole to feed it, Christopher Onken, lead researcher at the Research <br />School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian <br />National University (ANU), via Space.com.<br />The black hole's rapid accretion of matter <br />is also resulting in a quasar 7,000 times brighter <br />than the light from every star in the Milky Way.<br />The discovery was made by the <br />Siding Spring Observatory in Australia as part <br />of the SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey. .<br />Astronomers have been <br />hunting for objects like this <br />for more than 50 years, Christopher Onken, lead researcher at the Research <br />School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian <br />National University (ANU), via Space.com.<br />Details of the discovery were published in the journal , 'Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.'
