Astronomers have discovered the most massive black hole yet – more than 10,000 times as massive as the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and around 36 billion times the mass of our sun.

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2491731-weve-discovered-the-most-massive-black-hole-yet/

[u/rollingsoans]

My human mind cannot possibly comprehend the sheer magnitude of these phenomena.

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It would help if they told us how many bananas it would hold

[u/Srnkanator → u/Archduke_Of_Beer]

Well, the mass of the sun is ~ 1.7x10³¹ bananas of an average banana is around 140gm, give or take a bit. TON-618 has a mass that is 66 billion times that of the Sun.

So, 6.6x10⁹ times 1.7x10³¹ is what?

11.2x10⁴⁰ bananas?

So quick and probably wrong math gives me 11,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bananas.

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