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Monster black hole

April 8 , 2023 599 days 445 0
  • Astronomers have discovered one of the biggest black holes inside a galaxy.
  • The giant black hole has a mass of 30 billion suns.
  • It could consume billions of suns like the one in our Solar System.
  • The black hole is located in one of the galaxies of the Abell 1201 galaxy cluster.
  • It is located hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.
  • This is discovered through gravitational lensing method for the first time.
  • Gravitational lensing is where a foreground galaxy bends the light coming from a more distant object and magnifies it.
  • When a star collapses at the end of its life, it gives birth to black hole.

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