Eating stars

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A black hole having regular meals.

X-ray bursts repeating about every nine hours originating from the center of a galaxy called GSN 069. Obtained with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, these data indicate that the supermassive black hole located there is consuming large amounts of material on a regular schedule.

the black hole is consuming about four Moons’ worth of material about three times a day.

that is quite a hefty diet, I wonder what the black hole's cholesterol levels are looking like?

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