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Monster black hole
April 8 , 2023
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- 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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