Black Hole
One of the most massive black holes ever directly measured, sitting in the diffuse core of the central galaxy of the Abell 85 cluster.
| Type | Black Hole |
|---|---|
| Black hole type | Supermassive |
| Distance from Earth | 700,000,000 ly |
| Diameter | 236,341,000,000 km |
| Mass | 7.96 × 10^40 kg |
| Redshift | 0.0553 |
| Discovered | 2019 |
Its mass is 40,000,000,000 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Holmberg 15A Black Hole tonight left it around 700,000,000 years ago.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.0553, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since 2019.
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