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Referring to these massive monsters as
supermassive black holes is probably the biggest understatements
of astronomy because they dwarf the previous record of
6.3 billion times the mass of the sun. Each of these two black
holes has a larger diameter than our entire solar system and could
easily swallow us whole. These supermassive black holes were both
discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope to be at the centers of
other galaxies.
The smaller of these two is at the center of galaxy NGC 3842 in
the consolation Leo and at an estimated distance of about 331
million light-years and a mass of about 9.7 billion Suns, However
the other one would call it tiny.
The larger one holes is at the center of galaxy
NGC 4889 in the Coma constellation. This
undisputed champion of the supermassive black holes has the mass
of a
whopping 21 billion Suns.
Discoveries like these are show that the universe sill has many
mysteries hiding in the depths of space. It needs to be noted that
supermassive black holes like this are so large that planets
and even stars could fall through the event horizon intact. |
