This may be the most large black hole ever

Astronomers have identified What can be the new superiority Black holeAnd with an estimated 36 billion times of the sun, it is about 10,000 times heavier than the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way. This would make it among the most huge things that have been discovered at all.

The result published in A monthly notice of the Royal Astronomical SocietyResearchers from the Institute of Coycotes and Attraction at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, in cooperation with the Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil. Scientists have found the signs of the new superior black hole inside the gravitational lens known as the “cosmic horse”, in the picture below. A Gravity lens It occurs when the risk of a huge object, like the galaxy, is so large that it bends the light and the time that passes near it, distorting the light that travels from the back.

Telescope Cosmic Horsehoe was discovered in 2007. Galaxy LRG 3-757 sits in the middle, while the shape of the blue horse surrounding this yellow-yellow-yellow organism emitted from another galaxy outside. LRG 3-757 is one of the most huge galaxies that astronomers have noticed, where a 100-time mass has a mass of milky wayAnd sit about 5.6 billion light years away from Earth.

The gravitational lens known as the cosmic horse, which was called due to the appearance of the incomplete loop of the blue light surrounding the central galaxy, LRG 3-757.

Photo: NASA/European Space Agency

Thanks to this bright structure, astronomers were able to calculate the black hole block that is supposed to be located in the center of LRG 3-757 (although it is not permanently proven, large galaxies are supposed to have a black hole in their center). Although there are no direct notes for this black hole, the light movement measurements in the ring and the speed of stars in the interior of the galaxy are consistent with the presence of a super black hole. “By combining these two measurements, we can be fully confident that the black hole is real,” said Thomas Colette, a professor of astronomical physics at the University of Portsmouth. Press statement.

Colette also indicates that the black hole of this lineage can only arise from the integration of two super black holes resulting from the collision of the galaxies. Astronomers are they It is still discussing Whether this will be the common destiny in our galaxy, Lebini Wi, and neighboring Andromeda.

What about a ton of 618 and the like?

Any astronomer love knows that most of the huge things in the universe so far are Ton 618. According to the most prevalent estimates, this black hole has the equivalent of 66 billion suns, or nearly twice the cosmic horse.

However, scientists are careful about describing TON 618 as the most huge things ever. Being more than 10 billion light years away, the hostess and things surrounding the detail cannot be observed. It is not much known about this from its brightness analysis and the theoretical models that allow us to estimate its size. Understanding is very high so that it cannot be considered a huge black hole known.

On the other hand, researchers in Portsmouth argue that the cosmic border black hole provides greater certainty, unlike almost distant legendary holes such as TON 618. In this way, they claim that their discovery may represent a more massive black hole that has been confirmed so far.

This story was originally appeared on Wireless En español It was translated from Spanish.