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Which is the biggest black hole in the universe?

Answer 1

This article is about the type of black hole. For the Muse song, see Supermassive Black Hole (song).



Artist concept of a SMBH consuming matter from a nearby star.

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This artist’s impression shows the surroundings of a supermassive black hole, typical of that found at the heart of many galaxies. The black hole itself is surrounded by a brilliant accretion disc of very hot, infalling material and, further out, a dusty torus. There are also often high-speed jets of material ejected at the black hole’s poles that can extend huge distances into space. Observations with ALMA have detected a very strong magnetic field close to the black hole at the base of the jets and this is probably involved in jet production and collimation.

A supermassive black hole (SMBH or SBH) is the largest type of black hole, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses (M☉), and is found in the centre of almost all currently known massive galaxies.[1][2] In the case of the Milky Way, the SMBH corresponds with the location of Sagittarius A*.[3][4]

Answer 2

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Currently the largest known black hole, powering the quasar TON 618, has a mass of 66 billion solar masses. TON 618's enormous bulk led scientists to speculate whether or not even larger black holes exist, and if there is any upper limit to their sizes