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36 Billion Solar Masses: Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy Harbors What May Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Detected
COSMIC HORSESHOE GALAXY, AUG 7 – The ultramassive black hole is 36.3 billion solar masses, nearly 10,000 times heavier than the Milky Way’s central black hole, helping to reveal galaxy and black hole evolution.
- Today, astronomers identified a black hole in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy about 5 billion light-years away, with a mass of 36.3 billion times the Sun, possibly the most massive ever detected.
- In past studies, researchers struggled to measure a black hole in the Cosmic Horseshoe, but today’s paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests its mass is approximately 36.3 billion solar masses, potentially making it the most massive ever detected.
- In their methodology, the team measured the black hole’s effects by combining gravitational lensing and stellar kinematics, noting the host galaxy stars move nearly 400 km/s.
- This discovery offers insights into how supermassive black holes and their host galaxies evolve, helping astronomers understand their relationship and galaxy star formation cessation.
- Future searches will employ European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope data to hunt for more dormant ultramassive black holes, enabling identification and mass measurement across the universe.
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