{"id":78787,"date":"2018-05-15T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-fastest-growing-black-hole-in-the-universe-eats-a-sun-every-48-hours-and-astronomers-have-found-it"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:04:37","slug":"the-fastest-growing-black-hole-in-the-universe-eats-a-sun-every-48-hours-and-astronomers-have-found-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-fastest-growing-black-hole-in-the-universe-eats-a-sun-every-48-hours-and-astronomers-have-found-it","title":{"rendered":"The fastest-growing black hole in the universe eats a sun every 48 hours \u2014 and astronomers have found it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-fastest-growing-black-hole-in-the-universe-eats-a-sun-every-48-hours-and-astronomers-have-found-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s growing so rapidly that it\u2019s shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A \u201csupermassive\u201d black hole swallowing up the mass of our sun every two days has been found by Australian astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers at the Australian National University (ANU), led by Dr Christian Wolf of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, found the fastest-growing black hole known in the universe by looking back more than 12 billion years to what they call \u201cthe early dark ages of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It takes a million years to grow by 1%, but given it\u2019s already estimated to be as big as 20 billion suns, that means the black hole, also known as a quasar, is growing by around 66.5 million Earths annually.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/astronomers-just-found-the-fastest-growing-black-hole-in-the-universe-2018-5?r=UK&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/astronomers-just-found-the-fa...?r=UK&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s growing so rapidly that it\u2019s shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy. A \u201csupermassive\u201d black hole swallowing up the mass of our sun every two days has been found by Australian astronomers. Astronomers at the Australian National University (ANU), led by Dr Christian Wolf of the Research School of Astronomy and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78853,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78787\/revisions\/78853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}