Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeAstronomers have found an entirely new kind of object in space. The “black hole star” looks like an enormous Sun, the size of our solar system. But it is emitting 100 billion times more energy than any known star can produce – more like a black hole. Researchers believe that it is a new kind of object that is a combination of the two.