Discovery of a supermassive black hole “swallowing’ the equivalent of a Sun per day. It has a mass of 17 billion suns and 'eats' just over one sun per day, according to a study published in Nature.
The light from J0529-4351, as it was named, had been detected in the 1980s. Its light took 12 billion years to reach the VLT instruments, which makes it possible to date its existence to the primitive epoch of the Universe.