The researchers are skeptical that we will ever find another similarly massive and rapidly expanding black hole ever again, making it hard to test a general theory about the formation of such voracious cosmic objects. However, it may be hard to find out exactly how it formed. "Perhaps two big galaxies crashed into each other, funneling a whole lot of material onto the black hole to feed it," Onken said. The scientists suspect that a catastrophic cosmic event must be responsible for the birth of this gargantuan void. The team is now trying to determine why the massive black hole remains so unusually hungry for matter. The black hole boundary is so bright that even amateur astronomers would be able to see it with a powerful enough telescope trained at exactly the right part of the sky, the researchers said. Researchers are "fairly confident" that this is a record that will never be broken, according to the statement. The newly discovered behemoth's accretion disk is the brightest that astronomers have ever detected, due to its massive event horizon and the extreme speed at which it pulls in matter. But astronomers can spot black holes because their intense gravity pulls matter towards the event horizon so quickly that this matter gets turned into super hot plasma this gives off light in a ring around the black hole, called an accretion disk. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)īlack holes cannot be seen because they do not give off any light. A close-up concept image of a black hole's accretion disk.
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