There’s a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day

There’s a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day
By Matt Williams

In the 1960s, astronomers began theorizing that there might be black holes in the Universe that are so massive – supermassive black holes (SMBHs) – they could power the nuclei of active galaxies (aka. quasars). A decade later, astronomers discovered that an SMBH existed at the center of the Milky Way (Sagitarrius A*); and by …

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July 7, 2020 at 02:01AM
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