Astronomers Just Found Some of The Most Massive Black Holes Discovered in Our Universe

[Judi Lynn]

And they have no idea how they grow so huge.

MIKE MCRAE 21 FEB 2018

A study on dozens of galaxies within several billion light years of our own has revealed black holes that far exceed our expectations on just how big these monsters can grow.

The discovery not only helps us better understand the evolution of our Universe's building blocks, it leaves us with a new intriguing question – just how do black holes like these get to be so incredibly massive?

By now, the collapsed cores of massive stars known as black holes need no introduction. We've heard about their cosmic crashes rippling space-time, watched them belch, and expect to capture the closest look yet at their nature very soon.

It seems like we can't enough of these things, and there's a good reason why.

"Galaxies are the building blocks of our Universe, and to understand their formation and evolution, we must first understand these black holes," says physicist Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo from the Université de Montréal in Canada.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/research-challenges-ultramassive-black-hole-formation

[Make7]

1. Ten billion times the mass our Sun? That's pretty big.

I think the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a little less than four million solar masses - almost tiny in comparison.