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A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is an extremely large black hole, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses (M ☉), and is theorized to exist in the center of almost all massive galaxies.
Light from the supermassive black hole known as TON 618 (circled) takes more than 10 billion years to reach us. At the animation’s larger scale lies M87’s black hole, now with a updated mass of 5.4 billion Suns.
New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists say is the fastest-growing black hole ever...
Astronomers have just discovered what may be the largest black hole known to date. The giant black hole has a mass of 30 billion suns and sits at the center of a galaxy located hundreds of...
Over the past decade, astronomers have discovered black holes much, much larger, known as ultramassive black holes. Some are 1,000 times more massive than Sagittarius A* and large enough to...
This is considered one of the highest masses ever recorded for such an object; higher than the mass of all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy combined, which is 64 billion solar masses, [10] and 15,300 times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole.
Sagittarius A*, abbreviated as Sgr A* (/ ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr / SADGE-AY-star[3]), is the supermassive black hole [4][5][6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.
The new NASA animation shows 10 supersized black holes that occupy center stage in their host galaxies, including the Milky Way and M87, scaled by the sizes of their shadows.
This new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and contain between 100,000 and tens of billions of times more mass than our Sun.
What is the biggest black hole in the universe? Image showing the Phoenix Cluster of galaxies. Image credit: NASA. The largest black hole ever discovered is located within a galaxy cluster known as the Phoenix Cluster, located around 8.5-billion light years away.