Astronomers have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black hole to have existed in the last 9 billion years.
The enormous object is 3 billion times more massive than our sun, and it swallows up an Earth-sized chunk of matter every second!
The new black hole, known as J1144, is around 500 times larger than Sagittarius A*, the massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, which was recently photographed for the first time.
A ring of super-hot gas around the enormous object also emits around 7,000 times more light than our entire galaxy.
Australian astronomers found the cosmic giant using data from the SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey, which is trying to map all the sky in the Southern Hemisphere. Locating the black hole was like finding a "very large, unexpected needle in the haystack," they said.
