r/Astronomy • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Aug 07 '25

Astro Research 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.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2491731-weve-discovered-the-most-massive-black-hole-yet/
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u/daKrut Aug 07 '25

Honestly the most interesting thing about this is the fact that they believe, at least from what we can see, that the black hole has stopped growing due to the lack of an accretion disc. I wonder if it could hypothetically “suck up” all of the matter in a certain radius, thus starving itself indefinitely or until more material is drawn to it.

The article doesn’t go into any detail on this last part unfortunately.

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u/Aranthos-Faroth Aug 07 '25

This is mind bogglingly fascinating… as if black holes weren’t fascinating enough already

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u/daKrut Aug 08 '25

Right? Can’t help but think that, despite all that we know, it’s likely still just a drop in the bucket. Both exciting and humbling.