Astronomers have discovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, a cosmic behemoth weighing 36 billion times the mass of our Sun and located 5 billion light-years away in a galaxy dubbed the Cosmic Horseshoe. The discovery, published August 7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, pushes the boundaries of what scientists believe is possible in the universe.
The ultramassive black hole is roughly 10,000 times heavier than Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It sits close to the theoretical upper limit for black hole size, which cosmological models suggest is around 40 to 50 billion solar masses.
imagine being able to get close enough to one of those beasts to see it create stars that orbit it. Fucking christ.
what’s even wilder is that these monster black holes can’t actually “create” stars - the stars form when the accretion disk gets so massive that gravity makes parts of it collapse into stars. its like the black hole is so greedy it can’t eat fast enough and the leftovers turn into new solar systems!
Imagine having like a portal-window in your house with a view to one of them & just sip you chosen beverage while looking at the show (maybe the portal has some time dilation so that you can appreciate the changes on a daily level instead of centuries).
This is a Stargate episode
Also some rich guys home apartment (with every room on a different planet or other things) in Hyperion Cantos.
Daunting view. 😳