Astronomers have discovered a black hole with 40 billion solar masses in the heart of the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies.
This galaxy cluster – Abell 85 – consists of more than 500 individual galaxies. The bright one in the center is called Holm 15A. Astronomers peered into its heart to measure the mass of a black hole 40 billion times more massive than our sun. Image via Matthias Kluge/ USM Wendelstein Observatory/ MPE .
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ( MPE ) near Munich, Germany, said on December 3, 2019, that astronomers have set a new record for finding the most massive black hole in the nearby universe. They found it not because it’s doing something exotic or noticeable. On the contrary, they noticed this black hole because it caused the center of its galaxy to be peculiarly fainter than it would be otherwise, given the galaxy’s huge mass of stars.
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Most massive black hole in the local universe discovered
Ever since the existence of the first black hole was confirmed in 1971, they have gone from being a mathematical curiosity to a major player in the field of astrophysics. Theoretically, the smallest black hole is 22 micrograms, but at the other end of the scale a Max Planck team led by Ralf Bender's research group has found one that outweighs both the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud star clusters combined.
Discovered from photometric data and spectra recorded by the Very Large Telescope, the supermassive black hole is located in the center of the central galaxy Holm 15A of the Abell 85 cluster, which is composed of 500 individual galaxies. Holm 15A is no lightweight itself, boasting an equivalent to two trillion solar masses.
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Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, black holes continue to be mind-boggling enigmas in our universe.
Limitations in observation technologies have kept scientists from grasping a more complete picture of black holes. One of the largest gaps lies in a certain type of black hole: intermediate-mass black holes that fall between supermassive (at least a million times greater than our sun) and stellar (smaller, though still 5 to 50 times greater than the mass of our sun) black holes.
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The galaxy featured in Chandra's photo has been identified as NGC 2276 . This galaxy is located in the constellation Cepheus and lies about 105 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 2276 is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy. This means it belongs to a group that falls in between galaxies with and without central bars. Unlike other notable spiral galaxies such as Milky Way, NGC 2276 does not have a very distinct shape. Instead, it has an asymmetrical structure that was most likely caused by the gravitational pull of its neighboring galaxy NGC 2300.
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