Missing Supermassive Black Hole at Centre of Distant Galaxy Baffles Scientists
A supermassive black hole, which is estimated to weigh up to 100 billion times the mass of the Sun, is seemingly missing, leaving astronomers puzzled.
- Every large galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its centre, whose mass is millions or billions of times that of the Sun.
- The black hole at the centre of our galaxy– the Milky Way– is called Sagittarius A*, and is 26,000 light-years away from Earth.
Missing Black Hole and Recoiling Black Hole
- The black hole is supposed to be located in Abell 2261, an enormous galaxy cluster that is about 2.7 billion ....
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