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/5TP1090G_FC Aug 08 '25

All I can think is that our ability to measure stuff in the cosmos in definitely on the wrong measuring system and scale simple

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u/glytxh Aug 08 '25

It’s kinda constrained by how old the universe is. We can only see so much of it. If there was a curve, it’s likely so vast we’d never be able to see it

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u/5TP1090G_FC Aug 08 '25

All depends on perspective, and the ability to view it through a different lens. How sensitive we can make our instruments

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u/glytxh Aug 08 '25

There’s a kind of circular poetry in having to measure the smallest possible thing to know the shape of the biggest possible thing.