Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected: Terrifying void gobbles up one Sun every single day, scientists say

Astronomers have found the brightest object in the universe – a'hellish' black hole that consumes a star a day. Described as'the most hellish place in the universe', the black hole is 12 billion light years away and has a mass roughly 17 billion times that of our solar system's sun. Due to their immense gravitational pull, black holes grow in mass by capturing nearby material, whether it's stars, planets and even other black holes. The matter being pulled in toward this black hole, known as J0529-4351, forms a whopping disc that measures seven light-years in diameter. All galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their cores.