'Imagine condensing two-thirds of the Milky Way—which has a stellar mass equivalent to 60 billion suns—into a black hole and you have what we measured,' said researcher Roberto Saglia.
Despite the fact the galaxy is the brightest in the cluster overall, its center is extremely faint and diffuse, indicating the presence of a black hole with a very high mass.
Observations conducted using USM's Wendelstein Observatory and the Very Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert enabled the team to estimate the black hole's mass to 40 billion suns based on the motions of stars around the galactic center. "Imagine condensing two-thirds of the Milky Way—which has a stellar mass equivalent to 60 billion suns—into a black hole and you have what we measured," he said.Matthias Kluge/USM/MPE
"But we already had some idea of the size of the black hole in this particular galaxy, so we tried it," Jens Thomas, lead author of the study, from MPE said in the statement.
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