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Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near the upper limit predicted by our cosmological models, leaving astronomers with burning questions surrounding the relationship between black holes and their galaxy hosts.  In a paper published August 7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers announced the discovery of …

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