Summary

A rapidly growing black hole (COS-87259) has been discovered by astronomers from both the University of Texas and the University of Arizona. Forming stars 1000x than the milky way and more than 1 billion solar masses of interstellar dust. Black holes like this one happen at the center of many galaxies and have masses millions to billions of times greater than the sun in our universe. It’s still unknown how these black holes first form because of us finding them as they existed in the past. Black holes like this one are one of the many supermassive black holes out in space.

CRAAP Question Answers

Q: Is it Current?

A: This article was published in February of 2023 and is a recent discovery.

Q: Is it Relevant?

A: This topic is well under topic as its category is astronomy and black holes.

Q: Is it Authoritative?

A: The organization writing this is the Royal Astronomical Society. Mike Edmunds is the president of the organization, Edmunds is a British astrophysicist and has PhD degrees from Cambridge University and is a Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University. This article also has an editorial process checklist verifying its a trusted source and its been properly fact checked and reviewed.

Q: Is it Accurate?

A: It’s accurate and has no broken links to go to the sources and the organization.

Q: What is its Purpose?

A: Its purpose is to give information on a black hole discovered recently, no bias is shown and is informational.

Curricular Competency Reflection

Questions that I needed to research in order to create my summary were how accurate was this information and the size of this black hole and why it’s big. Some tools I used were to use google to search the people behind my article and if they are trustworthy or not and used the links to find out how trust worthy is the the article I am looking at. The process I used was to find the organization behind the article as well as the people who are running it and to find out their background in astronomy, I cited the info by including it in my hand in. The process of this was a bit difficult because you need to find out the people writing this article behind the organization and to see if it’s a legit organization or if it’s a fake.

Core Competency Reflection

My strategies for collecting relevant information for this lab/activity or project include…

Searching up discoveries in the field that I am looking at (astronomy) and referencing other articles to see if they are producing similar information. I also took a look at a specific topic (black holes) since it was something I had some knowledge of before.

I can describe how … (this thing lab, assignment, project) relates to this my learning…

This project relates to my learning because its space related and is something that is being taught in courses. This is also something I’ve learned in the past about as said earlier so it’s under whats being taught.

One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is…

Picking a topic that I would have knowledge on and some interest. It’s something that while I have been taught on, its been a while since.