A new study said that the ultramassive black hole is more than 30 billion times the mass of the Sun.
It is the first black hole ever observed using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, in which light travelling towards us from a distant galaxy appears to magnify and bend inwards, giving away the presence of a dark giant.
It could even be the biggest black hole ever recorded, but it was difficult to say for sure given the varying techniques and uncertainties involved, he added. Gravitational lensing allows astronomers to"discover black holes in the other 99 percent of galaxies that are currently inaccessible," Nightingale said.
For the latest discovery, the researchers used computer simulations and images from the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm their findings, as well as eliminating other possibilities such as an overconcentration of dark matter.
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