This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered

Astronomers have identified What may be a new supermasive Black holeAnd the estimated mass is 36 billion times compared to the sun, it is about 10,000 times heavier than the black hole in the center of the Milkyway. It will make it among the most huge objects that have been identified so far.

Search, published Royal Astronomy SocietyResearchers were created by the Federal University of Rio Grand, Brazil, from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the Portsmouth University of Portsmouth in the UK. Scientists have discovered the symptoms of the new supermasive black hole in an gravitational lens, known as “Cosmic Horsshow”. Ay Gravitational lens When the gravity of huge objects like the galaxy is so great that it is light and the time to bend, which moves closer to it, distorts the light traveler from the back.

The cosmic horse was discovered by the Hubble Telescope in 2007. The galaxy LRG sits in the center of 3-757, when the size of the blue horse surrounding this yellow color is deformed from the other galaxy. LRG 3-757 is one of the largest galaxies observed by astronomers, one of which contains 100 times a mass Milky WayAnd it sits about 5.6 billion light years away from the earth.

The gravitational lenses are known as the Cosmic Horsshow, it is named after the presence of the incomplete ring around its central galaxy, LRG 3-757.

Photograph: NASA/ESA

Thanks to this enlightened structure, astronomers have been able to calculate the mass of the black hole that is probably located in the center of LRG 3-757 (although not clearly proven, large galaxies are thought to be a black hole in their center). Although this black hole has no direct observation, the speed of light in the ring and the velocity of the stars in the galaxy’s internal region are compatible with the presence of an ultramassive black hole. “By combining these two measurements, we can be completely confident that the black hole is real,” said Thomas Colet, a professor at Portsmouth University. Press statementThe

Colet further suggests that a black hole of this national ratio can only arise from the integration of two supermasive black holes as a result of the galaxy collision. Astronomers are Still debate Whether it would be the fate of our galaxy, milkyway and neighboring Andromeda.

Tons 618 and what’s like?

Any astronomy enthusiast knows that the most enormous object found in the universe so far is possible Ton 618The According to the most extensive estimate, this black hole is almost twice as much as the cosmic horses, the equivalent of 66 billion sun.

However, scientists have been careful about tons 618 labeling that is the largest object seen so far. The host galaxy and surrounding objects cannot be observed in detail as they are located more than 10 billion light years. Everything that is known about it comes from its brightness analysis and theoretical models that allows us to estimate its size. Uncertainty is very high to consider it as the most huge black hole.

On the contrary, Portsmouth researchers argued that the cosmic horsshow black hole provides greater observational confirmation against the tons 618, almost against myths. For example, they claim that their invention can represent the biggest black hole to confirm today.

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