Massive Black Hole Discovered Pointing at Earth through Light-bending Gravity
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Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole, over 30 billion times the mass of our sun, using gravitational lensing and supercomputer simulations. The black hole was found in a foreground galaxy hundreds of millions of light years from Earth, and is one of the biggest ever detected. Gravitational lensing makes it possible to study inactive black holes, something not currently possible in distant galaxies, and could reveal how these exotic objects evolved further back in cosmic time.
Topics:science#astronomy#black-holes#gravitational-lensing#hubble-space-telescope#supercomputer-simulations#ultramassive-black-hole
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