BBC News – Giant black hole in tiny galaxy… – Musings Of A Mild Mannered Man

BBC News – Giant black hole in tiny galaxy…

BBC News – Giant black hole in tiny galaxy confounds astronomers

Astronomers have spotted an enormous black hole – the second-heaviest ever seen – but it resides in a tiny galaxy.

The galaxy NGC 1277, just a quarter the size of our own Milky Way, hosts a black hole 4,000 times larger than the one at the Milky Way’s centre.

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