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Giant black hole found in an unlikely place
Astronomers from NASA\'s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii have uncovered a supermassive black hole in an unlikely location, indicating that these monster objects may be more common than once thought.
New York: Astronomers from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii have uncovered a supermassive black hole in an unlikely location, indicating that these monster objects may be more common than once thought.
The near-record breaking black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, was discovered in the centre of a galaxy, in a sparsely populated area of the universe.
"The newly discovered supersized black hole resides in the centre of a massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1600, located in a cosmic backwater, a small grouping of 20 or so galaxies," said lead discoverer Chung-Pei Ma, professor at University of California-Berkeley in US.
The black hole, located about 200 million light years from Earth, is 10 times more massive than it was predicted for a galaxy of this mass, the researchers explained in the journal Nature.
