They discovered one of the largest black holes ever seen

A group of scientists from Durham University And Max Planck Institute discovered black hole very unique for many reasons. Let’s start with the fact that it is one of the largest ever found. So much so that it is thought to be the upper limit of what they can measure. On the other hand, since this idle. They are much easier to discover assets as they are constantly issuing radiation that can be measured with telescopes. And finally interesting because it was discovered using gravitational lensing. This method is presented as a great tool for finding more such black holes in the future. Now we have it even clearer.

Every discovered sleeping black hole is a sign of great advances in science. It also has approximately the mass 30 billion salts. It is really big, so it can give a lot of interesting information to science.

And this is just the beginning; because, as the authors of the study explained, it is expected that telescopes of the future they might find more black holes like this one. Today we have very advanced telescopes; but in the next few years they will become obsolete with everything that is to come.

Gravitational lenses could help detect huge black holes

A gravitational lens is formed when light from distant bright objects it’s curves when passing through a very massive object located between the emitter and the light receiver.

In this case, the radiation came from a distant galaxy, and the receiver would be a telescope. Hubble. Despite being said to have been replaced by James Webb, he is still active. They even sometimes work together. In addition, data from previous years can be used to draw similar conclusions.

And the fact is that when viewing the telescope data, the authors of this study found a giant arc caused by foreground galaxy. That is, the galaxy located closer to the telescope generated a gravitational lens in relation to the light from another, more distant. And this large arc had to correspond to the presence of a large black hole in the center of this galaxy. It is normal for galaxies to have a black hole at the center. But this one was huge. Thanks to the computational models made with the help of Supercomputer DiRAKfrom the University of Durham, were able to measure it and concluded that it is 30 trillion times the mass of the Sun.

Now what?

Getting here was a long process. Actually, data was discovered in 2004, so it took almost 20 years to confirm and publish them. However, the authors of the study are not tired and hope that this is just the beginning.

As they explained in their statement, this could be the first step to “learn more about secrets of black holes“. In addition, with future large-scale telescopes, astronomers will be able to “study even more distant black holes to learn more about their size and scale.”

Although it is one of the largest black holes, there could still be a black hole larger than any that has ever been seen before. There are probably many. And science has ever more sophisticated tools to detect them.