Black Hole
An extraordinarily massive black hole at the heart of the Phoenix Cluster, forming stars at a rate unusual for its host galaxy type.
| Type | Black Hole |
|---|---|
| Black hole type | Supermassive |
| Distance from Earth | 5,700,000,000 ly |
| Diameter | 118,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 3.98 × 10^40 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 18.2 |
| Redshift | 0.597 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 2012 |
Its mass is 20,010,055,304 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Phoenix A tonight left it around 5,700,000,000 years ago.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.597, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since 2012.
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