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The Phoenix Cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243) is a massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix.It was initially detected in 2010 during a 2,500 square degree survey of the southern sky using the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect by the South Pole Telescope collaboration. [5]
Size comparison of the event horizons of the black holes of TON 618 and Phoenix A.The orbit of Neptune (white oval) is included for comparison. As a quasar, TON 618 is believed to be the active galactic nucleus at the center of a galaxy, the engine of which is a supermassive black hole feeding on intensely hot gas and matter in an accretion disc.
Evolution models based on the mass of S5 0014+81's supermassive black hole predict that it will live for roughly 1.3 × 10 99 years (near the end of the Black Hole Era of the universe, when it is more than 10 88 times its current age), before it dissipates via Hawking radiation.
The supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87, here shown by an image by the Event Horizon Telescope, is among the black holes in this list. This is an ordered list of the most massive black holes so far discovered (and probable candidates), measured in units of solar masses (M ☉), approximately 2 × 10 30 kilograms.
First black hole to have an accurate parallax measurement of its distance from our solar system B K [4] 0.7: Early K giant star 8100 ± 1000: 2.49 ± 0.30: GRO J0422+32: Binary star system with orbit t=5.09 h 04 h 21 m 42.723 s +32° 54′ 26.94″ 1992 Aug 5 A BH: 3.97 ± 0.95: B M1: 0.5 ± 0.1: 8150: 2.5: MACHO-96-BLG-5: Candidate isolated ...
A black hole is a region of spacetime wherein gravity is so strong that no matter or electromagnetic energy (e.g. light) can escape it. [2] Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. [3] [4] The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon.
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It harbors a black hole with mass of 12 billion solar masses [1] (estimated (1.24 ± 0.19) × 10 10 M ☉ according to MgII emission line correlations). This makes it one of the most massive black holes discovered so early in the universe, although it is only less than one fifth as massive as Ton 618 , the most massive black hole known.