Friday, August 8, 2025

A 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Detected Thanks To Gravitational Lensing

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens. The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe shaped ring by distortions in spacetime created by the immense mass of the foreground orange galaxy. Image Credit: NASA/ESA. Licence: Attribution (CC BY 4.0)

Astronomers from Brazil and the UK have detected what could be the most massive black hole ever found. It's about 36 billion solar masses, which is a stunning 10,000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. This behemoth is about 5 billion light-years away.



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