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Thursday, 17 May 2018

A very distant fast-growing monster black hole discovered

Scientists have discovered the fastest growing black hole known in the universe.  It is growing at a rate of 1 per cent every 1 million years, and it is so big it is consuming a mass equivalent to the Sun every two days.

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