Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected

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This just boggled me at every step. A black hole 17 billion times the mass of our sun, consuming the mass of our sun per day and an accretion disk 7 lightyears across. Oh, and 12 billion lightyears away.

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Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected

Astronomers report an object that shines with a brightness equivalent to 500 trillion suns.
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Not unlike the all-consuming, voracious black hole that is my ex wife. Had I only but detected her nature before getting sucked in...
 
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