{"id":16132,"date":"2022-06-14T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fastest-growing-black-hole-of-past-9bn-years-may-have-been-found-australian-led-astronomers-say"},"modified":"2022-10-09T04:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T04:48:41","slug":"fastest-growing-black-hole-of-past-9bn-years-may-have-been-found-australian-led-astronomers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fastest-growing-black-hole-of-past-9bn-years-may-have-been-found-australian-led-astronomers-say","title":{"rendered":"Fastest-growing black hole of past 9bn years may have been found, Australian-led astronomers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colour image from the SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey shows the growing black hole as a bright blue source.Astronomers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past 9bn years.The supermassive black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second and has the mass of 3bn suns, they estimate.Scientists discovered an extremely bright quasar, a luminous object powered by a supermassive black hole, using the SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey &#8211; a 1.3-metre telescope in Coonabarabran, New South Wales.The object &#8211; J114447.77-430859.3, or J1144 for short &#8211; is 7,000 times more luminous than all the light from the Milky Way.The lead researcher Dr Christopher Onken, of the Australian National University, said the supermassive black hole was &#8220;more or less halfway across the universe&#8221;.&#8220;The light that we&#8217;re seeing from this growing black hole has been travelling to us for about 7bn years,&#8221; he said. The big bang occurred an estimated 13.8bn years ago.J1144 was the most luminous quasar in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past 9bn years. The supermassive black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second and has the mass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1],"tags":[184,185],"class_list":["post-16132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}