British astronomers have discovered a black hole 30 billion times the mass of the Sun, which they say is the largest black hole ever discovered. It is 8000 times larger than Sagittarius A at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
The discovery was made possible by the phenomenon of gravitational lensing and is the first time that a black hole has been discovered using this technique. Gravitational lensing occurs when a galaxy in front bends and magnifies light from distant objects behind it. Using this technique, Durham University researchers took a closer look at the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.
Dr. James Nightingale, head of the research, says how big this black hole is. To estimate this, according to Dr. James Nightingale, if you look at the sky at night and gather all the stars and planets together, they cannot be equal to the size of this black hole.
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