A black hole with a mass 33 billion times larger than the Sun

A supermassive black hole with a mass 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been recorded

A black hole with a mass 33 billion times larger than the Sun has been discovered.
A supermassive black hole with a mass 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been recorded. Sky News writes about the work of astronomers from Durham University. During the research, the specialists were helped by the technology of gravitational lensing.
Astronomers applied observations made using the Hubble telescope and conducted simulations using a supercomputer. As a result, they confirmed the existence of a black hole, and were able to estimate its mass.
Many supermassive black holes are in an active state. And the new supermassive black hole belongs to the sleepers, which are difficult to identify by traditional methods.
The head of the work carried out, James Nightingale, said that the discovered black hole is one of the largest ever found. He noted that this is the upper limit of how big black holes can become in theory.
Black holes whose mass is much larger than the mass of the Sun are called supermassive black holes. They are at the center of many galaxies, including the Milky Way. It is known that the oldest supermassive black holes are 13.7 billion years old.