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Our Sun is about 330,000 times the mass of Earth, yet it is dwarfed by the black holes that lurk at the centers of galaxies. A team of astronomers recently found the fastest-growing of this group: a 17-billion solar mass black hole in the distant universe, which is growing at the rate of one solar mass per day.Why Bitcoin won’t reach $1,000,000The black hole is actually a quasar, aka an actively feeding black hole at the center of a galaxy. When quasars accrete matter—which is to say, as their strong gravitational fields…

An international team of astronomers has discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the last nine billion years.The black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second and shines 7,000 times brighter than all the light from our own galaxy, making it visible to well-equipped backyard astronomers, said the team from the Australian National University (Anu). Lead researcher Dr Christopher Onken from Anu described the black hole as a "very large, unexpected needle in the haystack". "Astronomers have been hunting…