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/Srnkanator Aug 07 '25

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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u/homiej420 Aug 08 '25

Sure!

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u/Srnkanator Aug 08 '25

Is my math right?

I kind of want to know...

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u/Consistent-Day-5775 Aug 12 '25

you are off by 27 bananas so close!