TON 618

Black Hole

One of the most massive black holes ever found, powering a hyperluminous quasar.

Facts

TypeBlack Hole
Black hole typeSupermassive
Distance from Earth10,400,000,000 ly
Diameter390,000,000,000 km
Mass1.31 × 10^41 kg
Apparent magnitude15.9
Redshift2.219
HemisphereNorthern
Discovered1970

TON 618 in context

Its mass is 66,013,071,895 times the mass of the Sun.

The light reaching us from TON 618 tonight left it around 10,400,000,000 years ago.

Its light arrives redshifted by z = 2.219, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.

It has been on record since 1970.

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