Astronomers have found a massive black hole

The discovered black hole is growing at a rate of about 370 solar masses per year. This is the maximum sustained rate at which they can eat.

Astronomers have found the world’s largest black hole, which consumes an amount of gas and dust equal to the mass of the Sun every day. This was reported by Science Alert.

According to scientists, the mass of the black hole located at the center of the quasar galaxy J0529-4351 is about 17 billion Suns. He is growing so fast that he has almost reached the maximum limit of how much material he can take.

Astronomers estimate that the discovered black hole is growing at a rate of about 370 solar masses per year. This is the maximum stable rate at which black holes can eat, also called the Eddington limit.

If the speed increases, the object will begin to glow so much that the radiation pressure will push the object around the black hole until it is out of gravitational reach.

So far, scientists have not established the exact mechanism of formation of supermassive black holes. A study of the quasar J0529-4351 may be helpful to know.

It is worth noting that the quasar is a very bright active galactic nucleus. Its radiation is powered by a supermassive black hole.

J0529-4351 is a quasar located in the Cosmic Noon (approximately 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang). This is a very early period in the history of the Universe.

It was previously reported that a team of astronomers using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope discovered a superfast black hole wind in the Markarian 817 galaxy.

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