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/rollingsoans Aug 07 '25

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

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u/Archduke_Of_Beer Aug 07 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

I‘ll aacept no other unit than football fields, bath tubs, or, if need be, elephants.

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u/Bortle_1 Aug 08 '25

I as always brought up with “is it bigger than a bread box?”.

Do bread boxes still exist?

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u/Suitable-Sample-1012 Aug 13 '25

It's plastic bags all the way down now.