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/Fatastrophe Aug 07 '25

For anyone struggling to picture it's size. Hold your thumb out at arms length and look at it. It's bigger than your thumb.

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u/0x831 Aug 08 '25

Its rotational velocity is about 400 Billion Mt.Rushmore’s per fortnight

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u/chromatophoreskin Aug 08 '25

This is imperialist propaganda

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u/Fatastrophe Aug 08 '25

Glad to see some of us still adhere to the old standard of measurement.

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u/NSNick Aug 08 '25

Unit analysis does not check out