Fastest-growing black hole ever seen is devouring the equivalent of 1 Earth per second - Space.com

This behemoth has been powering an ultrabright quasar for 9 billion years.

The fastest-growing black hole ever seen is swallowing the mass equivalent of an entire Earth every second.  This gargantuan black hole has a mass 3 billion times that of the sun, and its rapid co… [+3377 chars]

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