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Monstrous black hole found devouring about one sun every day

NoleATL

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Sounds like OPs mom.

https://www.cnet.com/news/monstrous-black-hole-found-devouring-about-one-sun-every-day/

The yawning void known as J2157 eats stars like ours for breakfast. Perhaps every breakfast.

The fastest-growing black hole known to humans is astonishingly large, and apparently very hangry, according to new research from an international team of astronomers.

"The black hole's mass is also about 8,000 times bigger than the black hole in the center of the Milky Way," Christopher Onken of the Australian National University said in a release.

To localize it even further, the yawning void, known as J2157, is 34 billion times the mass of our sun and consumes the equivalent of one sun each day.

"If the Milky Way's black hole wanted to grow that fat, it would have to swallow two-thirds of all the stars in our galaxy," Onken adds.
 
I hope that because the Universe is expanding, that means all the stars can't be eaten. Black holes must be the pit bulls of the solar system.
 
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