Black Hole (Photo : www.popsci.com)
Deep in the outer space is an enormous black hole that is said to be 12 billion times larger than the sun. This makes it the biggest deep=space black hole ever reported.
To be able to record the size of the black hole, a team has analyzed the luminosity that surrounds it, the Popular Science magazine reported. Black holes have the tendency to become a massive gravitational pulling matter aside from the fact that is constantly sucks air and other forms of materials from its nearby surroundings. This pulling process progresses to heating up the accommodated gas resulting to intense energy emission and thermal radiation. This is what makes this "black hole" shine brightly.
This new discovery has been called SDSS J0100+2802 and is located 12.8 billion light years away from the Earth. It was formed 900 million years after the "Big Bang," the Telegraph said.
"Based on previous research, this is the largest black hole found for that period of time," Dr. Fuyan Bian from the Australian National University told Reuters. "Current theory is for a limit to how fast a black hole can grow, but this black hole is too large for that theory," the Professor added.
The black hole was first observed by a team of scientists headed by Xue-Bing Wu of the Peking University in China as part of their survey project, "Sloan Digital Sky." The project has provided imagery of the 35% of the sky's northern hemisphere.
ANU is on the process of completing a comparable project called "SkyMapper," which is aimed to carry out all observations of the sky's southern hemisphere.
