Astronomers Discover Most Massive Black Hole Yet

This Hubble image shows the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens (to the right from the center): the newly-discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the center 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 / Hubble.

Astronomers have identified and measured the most massive black hole to date, which tops out at a mass of 36 billion solar masses.

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