PARIS: Scientists working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with the mission to provide imagery data of 35 % of the northern hemisphere sky have discovered that a new black hole in outer space named SDSS J0100+2802 is 12 billion times larger than our sun. This would make of it one of the greatest deep-space black holes to have ever been spotted by scientists.
Black hole SDSS J0100+2802, discovered by a group of global scientists led by Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University, China, is 12.8 billion light years away from our planet. It is said that it was formed around 900 million years after the Big Bang. Measuring this black hole has generated results that challenge the existing theory as to how black holes grow. Black holes are measured by analysing the luminosity surrounding them; they are thought to constantly sucking in materials in their vicinity, thereby releasing great energy and thermal radiation that make them shine brightly.
The new black hole is alleged to be 12 million times larger than the sun. This makes the common hypothesis of growth rates problematic to explain.
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